Edited by
Michael Katakis

With illustrations by Russell Chatham

  SACRED TRUSTS
Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility
       
 

SACRED TRUSTS
Nature & Environment
304 pages
Paper, $17.95
1-56279-056-0
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  Thirty original essays from a diverse group of leading writers — including Wendell Berry, Gary Paul Nabhan, Frederick Turner, Mary Catherine Bateson, and Yvon Chouinard — celebrating the responsible maintenance of our finite resources.

“Some of our finest nature writers.… They reveal a marvelous variety of motivations for stewardship as an approach to living in nature.”
— Los Angeles Book Review

“Sacred Trusts is a book that will excite you to awe and sadness and anger, and finally to a renewed sense of responsibility for our action and life on earth. This is a wonderful book.”
— William Kittredge

“This book bangs away at the undeniable seriousness of the situation — of our land, and our country, slipping away from beneath us. These essays are not preaching to the converted. They are essays of hope and passion and meaning, and they can make a difference.”
— Rick Bass

All of the essays are new and previously unpublished: contributors include Bill McKibben, John Murray, John Gierach, Jack Turner, Dan O'Brien, Thomas Lyon, John Nichols, Jack Hemingway, Dan Gerber, Stephen Bodil, Kris Hardin, and others. Each essay is accompanied by an original illustration by Russell Chatham, who also did the cover painting, making this a beautiful as well as an eloquent, wise, and inspirational collection.

       
 

  MICHAEL KATAKIS's first book, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, is a two-year study of the emotional impact the memorial had on its visitors. He is also the editor of Excavating Voices : Listening to Photographs of Native Americans. His photographs are included in Seventy-five Years of Leica Photography. He lives in Carmel, California.
       
 

  RUSSELL CHATHAM's work has been exhibited in numerous museums, universities, and galleries. He lives in Livingston, Montana.