<p>&quot;Loren Wilkinson is best known among most of us for his passionate life-long care for the earth--the literal earth. The soil-and-flower river-and-tree earth. But not nearly as many are aware that he wrote poems equally as skilled in revealing his care for language--the sounds and rhythms and metaphors that keep us alert to the &#39;Word made flesh.&#39;&quot; -Eugene H. Peterson</p><p>&quot;Loren Wilkinson is one of those native souls to whom the tag &#39;natural poet&#39; adheres like pollen to a bee&#39;s knees. His personal presence and his way of living are models of enthusiasm for the creation and its Creator. He names things in order to bring them to our attention.&quot; -Luci Shaw</p><p>&quot;Loren Wilkinson is a poet who celebrates his faith&nbsp;as well as the simple things of creation in peasant ways ever mindful that Christ is sacramentally there as Lord of all Creation. Daily events then are always Epiphany.&quot; -James M. Houston</p>