Mary Reynolds Thompson

Embrace Your Inner Wild

“For the love of the Earth, its inhabitants, and the wild soul that longs to be set free.”

For anyone who seeks a deeper connection to nature, this full-color book is a visual and verbal psalm to wildness that invites you see the world and your own Inner Wild in a whole new way.

“For the love of the Earth, its inhabitants, and the wild soul that longs to be set free.”

For anyone who seeks a deeper connection to nature, this full-color book is a visual and verbal psalm to wildness that invites you see the world and your own Inner Wild in a whole new way.

This book…

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Combines exquisite nature photographs by Don Moseman with eco-reflections by Mary Reynolds Thompson


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Celebrates the natural world with images and poetry designed to inspire you to get out doors and explore for yourself.

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Reveals the vital connection between humans and the rest of nature and the importance of wildness in a world given to high-tech and high-stress.

What Wildness Means To Don and Mary

In this short video photographer Don Moseman and writer Mary Reynolds Thompson share how their love of wildness has helped them to stay sober, and in Don’s case, stay out of prison too. They know that connection to nature is key to healing from addiction, bringing them to a place of aliveness and joy.

Jane Hirshfield, prize winning poet and essayist

"This is a book of astonishment, reverence, and freedom. Familiar and less familiar beings and places are alike made bright here, burnished by seeing made vision, a seeing made also more precise by being shared. These pages enact an invitation that leads inward and also outward. I looked. I read. I lingered ... then reached for my hiking boots, to go out at once and see more deeply and freely for myself."

Jan Phillips, author of God is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art 

"At a time when the urgency is upon us to befriend the earth, this book offers a pathway into her beauty."

Discover your own sense of possibilities in the spiraling of hawks and the fierce stare of bobcats.

Notes from the author

Notes from the author

Don Moseman and I cross paths many times on the trails of Marin County, California, where we both live.

We commune with nature in different ways—he with his camera, and I, my journal—but our roots reach into the same earth. We are both working to preserve wildness, wherever it resides––within and without.

From that shared passion, Embrace Your Inner Wild was born.

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  • "Everything is perfect: the photographs and the words. And it is also a very inspirational book. I bought one as a gift and one for myself."

    J. Kirk

  • "This is an amazing combination of poetic reflection and visual, sensitive beauty. What a discovery! May these two artists be blessed and live long productive lives. Thank you!"

    TD

  • "Kudos to Mary and Don for their amazing publication, "Embrace Your Inner Wild." At a time when even the most urbanized of us knows that true salvation lies in the natural world, along comes this book with its bounty of nature photography and Reynolds Thompson's gorgeous written accompaniment, and reminds us how much more there is to learn from, and with, nature. a beautiful journey into the wild!"

    jjjiefu2002

  • "I leave this book sitting out where I can find it easily and open it to a random page whenever I need a good thought to relax my inner being and comfort my soul. This book is the next best thing to a peaceful walk in nature."

    MS