Of Earthly Beings and Wild Things

Of Earthly Beings and Wild Things is a poetic journey through mountains, valleys, waterfalls, rivers, and roads less traveled. It is filled with an elder's vivid experience and spiritual understandings of the miracle world that is Mother Nature, as understood by another man's contemplative and discerning pen.

At the turn of the century, hiking along a windy path in the Cascade Mountains, the author met a man by the name of Grey Cloud, a Native American in his 70s who had shared his wisdom of...