The Wild Scribe

“This fabulous book is a wild flight through the creative mind—yours and the Earth’s. Mary Reynolds Thompson combines philosophical insight, ecological wisdom, poetic awareness, and practical advice into a must-have guide to writing about a planet alive with imagination. The Wild Scribe connects us to our depths and vivifies our kinship with the oceans, cloudscapes, animals, and galaxies.” * Drew Dellinger, poet, teacher, and author of Love Letter to the Milky Way *
“Mary Reynolds Thompson’s elegantly written book gives new life to the hallowed tradition of nature journal writing: an important, reflective, and moving practice of exploration and appreciation much needed in a time of constant distraction. Wild Writing invites writing as listening: to the elements, the seasons, the presence of place, and our innermost self. As Wild Scribes we find ourselves reentering the Great Conversation, back in creative relation with the more-than-human presences around us.” * Craig Chalquist, Ph.D., author of Terrapsychological Inquiry and coeditor (with Linda Buzzell) of Ec *
“The Wild Scribe arrives at exactly the right moment—when the living world needs witnesses as much as it needs activists. Part guided writing practice, part chorus of voices, Mary Reynolds Thompson weaves her own writing with that of dozens of Wild Scribes responding to her prompts, creating a living anthology of human and Earth in conversation. Drawing on haiku, haibun, solastalgia, and the magic of naming, she shows us that Wild Writing is not mere observation but a way of grieving what is being lost, falling in love with what remains, and caring for a world that needs our words. For hikers, ecotherapists, poets, and anyone who has felt the urgency of putting the living world into language, this book is both compass and companion.” * Jessica Carew Kraft, author of Why We Need to Be Wild *
“The Wild Scribe is more than a book on nature writing. It is an invitation and a guided journey into ‘refugia,’ the sacred murmurings of the mystical to be found in hollow trees, pockets of moss, and the sloshing of tidal waters. As these times of accelerated change and transformation continue to wash over the inter-webs, deep sustenance awaits where pen meets page meets sky. Mary Reynolds Thompson is your skillful guide on this extraordinary journey!” * Micah Mortali, author of Rewilding *
“Thanks to this enchanting book, I have touched moments of awe among the trees. Mary Reynolds Thompson shows us how simple writing exercises can be a form of pure ecotherapy. The Wild Scribe is a beautifully written gift that I will cherish and return to—and recommend.” * Stephen McCabe, counselor and course director at Ten Directions Ecotherapy Training *
“Imagine you’re holding a map, cleverly camouflaged as a book about writing. In these pages, you might find a nearly hidden trail, fringed with moss, fungi, or stone, marking a way toward greater entanglement of perception, experience, and expression with the living body of Earth. Mary Reynolds Thompson offers grounded reflections, practices, and prompts that help sink our roots and turn our ears toward the world’s wild language. The practices in this book will free the feral imagination of poets, journal-tenders, and other scribes so that even our human words might be elixir for our co-inhabitants in the community of Earth.” * Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D., Animas Valley Institute, guide to intertwined mysteries of nature and ps *
“Mary Reynolds Thompson reminds us to listen to the essential voices that connect us to our deepest longings—the voices of the places of our lives. She shows us with tender clarity how to walk this deliciously nurturing path.” * Amos Clifford, founder of the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides and Programs and author *
“Mary Reynolds Thompson offers many pathways for us to immerse ourselves in Nature—writing exercises, Earth celebrations, finding a spirit animal. The story of her close encounter with a cougar was hairraising. And her personal journey with the healing power of nature is truly inspirational.” * Ann Linnea, author of Keepers of the Trees and Deep Water Passage *

Mary Reynolds Thompson, founder of Live Your Wild Soul Story, is an award-winning writer, internationally recognized speaker, and facilitator of journal and poetry therapy. A pioneer in the spiritual ecology movement and the author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman, Mary lives in Marin County, California.

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