Writing from the Center

<p> . . . essays of substance and beauty and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard Samuel Pickering and Wendell Berry. --Library Journal<br /><br />[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . --Publishers Weekly<br /><br />Skillfully written in a clear unmannered style refreshingly devoid of irony and hollow cleverness the author starts with everyday experiences and gleans from them larger truths. --The Christian Science Monitor<br /><br />[These] essays are so good one is tempted to stand up and applaud after reading them. . . . Sanders is a modern day prospector who finds gems of spiritual meaning in both familiar and unusual places. --Body Mind Spirit<br /><br /><i>Writing from the Center</i> is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. Lannan Literary Award winner Scott Sanders (Secrets of the Universe Staying Put A Paradise of Bombs) seeks and describes a center that is geographical emotional artistic and spiritual--and is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern the impulses are universal.<br /><br />The earth needs fewer tourists and more inhabitants it seems to me--fewer people who float about in bubbles of money and more people committed to knowing and tending their home ground. --Scott Russell Sanders from the book</p>