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"A 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Nature/Environmentalism This is a book about Regenerative Agriculture gone wild. This book of short stories and essays is a wondrous meditation on sunrises and wildness, on wildflowers and walks. It is also a book about you, about me, and about the ecosystem regeneration possible through learning to see the wild gifts of Relationship. Drawing on life in his Wildland-a 400-acre process-led and emergent farm that nurtures ecosystem regeneration, carbon sequestration, nourishing foods, bio-diversity, and species habitat-the acclaimed author and poet, emergent conservationist, and Savory Institute Hub Leader, Educator, and Consultant, Daniel Firth Griffith, provides a poetic portrait of the powers, magic, and rich abundance harvested by learning the language of connection and the restorative powers of Relationship. Wild Like Flowers is a collection of personal reflections from Griffith's regenerative wildland that utilizes the magical gifts of being, connection, reciprocity, and community to probe the larger concerns of the modern agricultural movement in lyrical and meditative prose that is a true celebration of life itself. It presents a choice to stop; to nurture awareness; to learn a language of Relationship instead of dominance-of community not colonization. A choice that understands life and the landscape of our place as something we commune with-a Relationship-a vision that places human life a bit closer to being Native to this place. - - - - - - - - - - - - - ""Everyone needs to read this book if for no other reason than to honor prophets and poets. ...You could call it a devotional."" - Joel Salatin ""This beautifully written book of short stories and essay exudes atmosphere and a deeply felt sense of place. ...If there were a poet laureate of holistic management, his name would be Daniel Griffith."" - Allan Savory ""Wild Like Flowers is a beautifully written work that places the reader onto the landscape itself. Griffith puts into words what so many in the Regenerative Movement are missing. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be a part of the community of Creation."" - Gabe Brown ""This book is about the core of regeneration. . . .I recommend this book for anyone looking to tend to the wild within and around us as well as engage with the earth in a meaningful and regenerative way."" - Doniga Markegard ""A buoyant riff that gets to the heart of regenerative farming. Embrace the spirit of this exuberant book and let it take you someplace wild within you."" - Judith D. Schwartz"

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This beautifully written book of short stories and essays exudes atmosphere and a deeply felt sense of place-its ecology, geology, culture, and spirit. It tells the story of the rewilding of that place and the impact that has had on the family there to witness it. If there were a poet laureate of holistic management, his name would be Daniel Griffith. - Allan Savory, Author of Holistic Management. Everyone needs to read this book if for no other reason than to honor prophets and poets. Giving ourselves time to imagine beauty and spontaneous, dynamic being relationships in and around us helps find balance. All my life I've struggled trying to balance out my western reductionist linear bias with an eastern holistic connectedness; I'm happy to say this book moved me toward that balance. You could call it a devotional. - Joel Salatin, Author of Salad Bar Beef A buoyant riff that gets to the heart of regenerative farming. Embrace the spirit of this exuberant book and let it take you someplace wild within you. - Judith D. Schwartz, Author of Cows Save the Planet and The Reindeer Chronicles. Wild Like Flowers is a beautifully written work that places the reader onto the landscape itself, into the ecosystem, to be a part of it, not just a passerby. Griffith puts into words what so many in the Regenerative Movement are missing. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be a part of the community of Creation. - Gabe Brown, Author of Dirt to Soil. Daniel Griffith invents an entire new language to share with his readers the entirely new set of emotions he has found himself immersed in since beginning his new, real life. He is living it, being it, and this book is his gift to allow others to begin to know what he is discovering. Do not approach this book with expectations: it is not like any other book. It is an outpouring, a sharing. It needs to be lived and breathed and not merely read. - Rosamund Young, Author, Secret Life of Cows. Daniel invites us to put our boots on and join him on a magical journey to become the wild and commune with the mystery of all that is. He also challenges us to mindfully safeguard the unfolding of the regenerative movement. Not one word is wasted in this beautiful book, or redundant. Every sentence, masterfully woven and beautifully delivered, is a gift to the soul, bells calling us to come back home, triggering a smile or a tear in each turn of the page- joy and hope with a side of tears. - Daniela Ibarra-Howell, CEO & Co-Founder, Savory Institute. Griffith's work is one to savor. It gives voice to a whispered calling back to the land- to the feral quintessence of landscape and our relationship with it. There are no demands or teachings here; only a humble invitation to being and becoming wild. - David Leon, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Farmer's Footprint. Griffith masterfully weaves together history, philosophy, ecology, and literature into one poetic narrative that speaks directly to those of us who deeply love the land. [This] is one of those rare books that simultaneously inspires, educates, and awakens the reader to the promise of regenerative agriculture and its ability to heal our land, our planet, and, ultimately, ourselves. - Ed Roberson, Creator of Mountain & Prairie. ...Griffith captures what it truly feels like to be a Steward of the land. Reading his eloquent, sensory prose, one is moved in awe to the complex, yet often simple, wild. ...I feel confident I will return often to Wild Like Flowers as it is one of those books you keep close. - Donna Kilpatrick, Land Steward of Heifer Ranch.

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Daniel Firth Griffith is an author and emergent conservationist. He is the founder and manageing director of a large-scale rewilding preserve in Central Virginia and he is the director and lead educator of the Robinia Institute. Most importantly, he is an unworthy father to the sweetest children and an undeserving husband to the most wonderful wife this world has to offer.

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