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Find inspiration, perspective, and the quiet lessons of nature in this six-book collection from best-selling author Douglas Wood.
The box set includes:
- Breathe the Wind, Drink the Rain—Rediscover presence, gratitude, courage, and joy through reflections inspired by life’s everyday wonders.
- Find True North—Draw wisdom from canoe country and wilderness travel as you navigate change, uncertainty, and the journey ahead.
- How Does Your Garden Grow?—Explore how the rhythms of gardens and the seasons can illuminate growth, relationships, resilience, and hope.
- Prescriptions from the Dock—Find humor, peace, and perspective in the simple pleasures of docks, boats, fishing, and life beside the water.
- The Thing with Feathers—Let the lives of birds inspire reflections on hope, courage, adaptability, and the possibility of soaring.
- The Things Trees Know—Discover timeless lessons about strength, healing, authenticity, and weathering life’s changing seasons.
Nature has always been one of our greatest teachers. In The Wisdom of Nature 6-Book Collection, Douglas Wood turns to birds and trees, gardens and lakes, wind and rain, canoes and quiet places to uncover lessons for living with greater awareness, resilience, gratitude, and joy.
Through brief, memorable meditations and elegantly simple illustrations, Douglas invites you to slow down and pay attention. A garden becomes a lesson in patience and care. A canoe points the way toward finding yourself. Birds remind us of hope and possibility, while trees demonstrate how to remain rooted through life’s storms. At the water’s edge—and in the everyday wonders all around us—there are opportunities to laugh, reflect, heal, and begin again.
Warm, thoughtful, poetic, and often playful, these six books offer encouragement without complication and wisdom without preaching. Their short reflections are ideal for quiet moments, daily inspiration, mindful reading, or simply opening to a page whenever a little perspective is needed.
A meaningful gift for nature lovers, spiritual seekers, and anyone navigating a new season of life, The Wisdom of Nature 6-Book Collection is a beautiful invitation to slow down, look closely, and discover how much the natural world has to teach us about living well.
Douglas Wood is a central-Minnesota-based author, artist, musician, and naturalist. He is the creator of more than 30 books, with over 2.5 million copies in print. His first book, Old Turtle, was hailed as a “profound work” and an “instant classic,” and his other titles include the New York Times best-seller Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth. Douglas has received numerous awards, including the Christopher Medal, Minnesota Book Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minnesota Association for Environmental Education.
The collection includes:
- Breathe the Wind, Drink the Rain
- Find True North
- How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Prescriptions from the Dock
- The Thing with Feathers
- The Things Trees Know