LITERATURE
Nature
Phenomenology, Life forces
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants. Publisher: MIT Press, 2009 (first published 1790)
Henri Bortoft, The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe’s Way of Science. Publisher: Floris Books, 1996
Ernst Lehrs, Man or Matter: An Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe’s Method of Training Observation and Thought. Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2013
Jochen Bockemühl (Editor), C. Lindenau, G. Maier, H. Poppelbaum, D. Rapp, W. Schad, Arthur Zajonc, Towards A Phenomenology Of The Etheric World, Investigations into the Life of Nature and Man. Publisher: Anthroposophic Press, 1985
Jochen Bockemühl, Awakening to Landscape. Publisher: Allgemeine Antrhophosohische Gesellschaft, Goetheanum, Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion, printed by Freiburg Graphischer Betrieb, copyright 1992
Jochen Bockemühl, In Partnership with Nature. Publisher: Steiner Books, 1996
David Lowe and Simon Sharp, Goethe and Palladio: Goethe’s study off the relationship between art and nature, leading through architectural to the discovery of the metamorphosis of plants. Publisher: Floris Books
Henri Bortoft, The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe’s Way of Science. Publisher: Floris Books, 1993
Peter Elsner, Metamorphosis in Nature and Art: The dynamic of form in plants, animals and human beings. Publisher: Hawthorn Press, 2013
Dorian Schmidt, Life Forces -Formative Forces Researching the formative energy of life and growth. Publisher: Hawthorn Press 2010
Baruch Luke Urieli, Hans Müller Wiedemann, Learning To Experience The Etheric World – Empathy, The after-Image And
A New Social Ethic. Publisher: Temple Lodge, 1998
Ernst Marti, The etheric. Broadening science through anthroposophy, Volume I. Publisher: Temple Lodge Press, 2017
Lawrence Edwards, The Vortex of Life: Nature’s Patterns in Space and Time. Publisher: Floris Books 1993
Gerbert Grohmann, The Plant. Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1974
Wilhelm Pelikan, Healing Plants: Insights through Spiritual Science, Volume I-III. Publisher: Mercury press, Spring Valley, New York, 2000 and Wynstones Press
Wilhelm Pelikan, The Secrets of Metals. Publisher: Lindisfarne Books, 2006
George Adams and Olive Wicher: The Sun between Sun and Earth: And The Science of Physical and Etherical Spaces. Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1980
Jos Verhulst, Developmental Dynamics in Humans and Other Primates: Discovering Evolutionary Principles through Comparative Morphology. Publisher: Floris Books, 2005
David Donaldson, A Treasure of Plants, collection of poems. Publisher: Wynstones Press
Planetary Rhythms, A set of 14 postcards. Publisher: Wynstones Press
Planetary Rhythms: Geocentric and Heliocentric, A set of 10 postcards. Publisher: Wynstones Press
Beredene Jocelyn, Citizens of the Cosmos: Life's Unfolding from Conception Through Death to Rebirth.
Publisher: Steiner Books, 2009
Dennis Klocek, Weather and Cosmos. Publisher: Rudolf Steiner College Press, 1990
Dennis Klocek, Climate: Soul of the Earth. Publisher: Steiner Books 2010
Dennis Klocek, Sacred Agriculture: The Alchemy of Biodynamics. Publisher: Lindisfarne Books, 2013
Ernst Haeckel, Art Forms in Nature. Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. 2000, available at the Natural History Museum, London
Monique Pommier, Harmony: The Heartbeat of Creation, The Convergence of Ancient Wisdom and Quantum Physics
in the Triune Pulse of Nature’s Forms. Publisher: Floris Books, 2020
Verena Stael von Holstein, interviewed and edited by Wolfgang Weirauch, Nature Spirits and What They Say.
Publisher: Floris Books. 2003
Maria Thun, Gardening For Life: The Biodynamic Way. Publisher: Hawthorn Press, 1999
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Spiritual Ecology - The Cry of the Earth. Publisher: The Golden Sufi Centre, 2014
Klaus-Peter Endres and Wolfgang Schad, Moon Rhythms in Nature: How Lunar Cycles Affect Living Organisms.
Publisher: Floris Books, 2002
Lisa Michaels, Prescott Hill (Illustrator), Natural Rhythms: A Sacred Guide into Nature’s Creation Secrets. Publisher Michaels Hills Inc. 2009
Elizabeth Vreede, Anthroposophy and Astrology, letters by Elizabeth Vreede. Publisher: Anthroposophic Press 1921
Marko Pogačnik, Turned Upside Down: A Workbook on Earth Changes And Personal transformation.
ISBN-13 9781584200253
Marko Pogačnik, Universe of the Human Body: With Gaia Touch Body Exercises. Publisher: Lindisfarne Press,
ISBN-13: 9781584209867
Marko Pogačnik, Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings: Working with the Intelligence in Nature. Publisher:
Findhorn Press, 2010
Marko Pogačnik, Sacred Geography – Geomancy: Co-creating the Earth Cosmos. Publisher: Lindisfarne Books, 2008
Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Nature. Publisher: Rupa, 2009
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional
and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man. Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989
Verena Stael von Holstein, Nature Spirits and What they Say. Publisher: Floris Books, 2004
Verena Stael von Holstein, Nature Spirits of the Trees. Publisher: Floris Books, 2009
Verena Stael von Holstein, Thoughts that Shine Like Stars. Publisher: Flensburger Hefte Verlag, 2012,
ISBN-13: 978 1477697030
Nature and Art therapy, Work in and with nature, Ecotherapy
Margaret Colquhoun and Axel Ewald, New Eyes for Plants: A Work Book for Observation and Drawing Plants
(Art & Science). Publisher: Hawthorn Press, 2000
Ed Bieber, What Color has the Wind. Publisher: Waldorf Publications, ISBN 13: 9780615532202
Dennis Klocek, Drawing from the book of Nature. Publisher: Rudolf Steiner College Publications, 1990
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, The Global Forest, 40 ways trees can save us. Publisher: Penguin, 2012
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a healing Vision
of the Forest. Publisher: Random House Canada, 2019
Dieter Kotte, Qing Li, Won Sop Shin, Andreas Michalsen (editors), International Handbook of Forest Therapy.
Publisher: Camebridge Scholar Publishing 2019
Ian Siddons Heginworth, Environmental arts therapies and the Tree of life. Publisher: Lulu.com, 2011
Ian Siddons Heginworth and Gary Nash (Editors), Environmental Arts Therapy, the Wild Frontiers of the Heart.
Publisher: Routledge London 2020
Nick Totton, Wild Therapy: Undomesticating Inner and Outer Worlds. Publisher: PCCS Books, 2011
Roger Druitt, Observing Nature’s Secret: Practical Exercise for Perceiving Soul and Sprit.
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2018
Mimi Farrelly -Hansen, Spirituality and Art Therapy: Living the Connection. Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publication, 2001
Adrian Anderson Living a Spiritual Year: Seasonal Festivals in Northern & Southern Hemispheres, an Esoteric Study. Publisher: Threshold Publishing, 2016
Andy McGeeney, With Nature in Mind: The Ecotherapy Manual for Mental Health Professionals. Publisher: Jessica Kingsley London, 2016
Nevin Harper, Kathryn Rose, David Segal, Nature Based Therapy, A Practitioner’s Guide to Working Outdoor with Children, Youth and Families, Publisher: New Society Publishers 2019
Lawrence Edwards, Projective Geometry, Monique Pommier, Harmony: The Heartbeat of Creation, The Convergence of Ancient Wisdom and Quantum Physics in the Triune Pulse of Nature’s Forms. Publisher: Floris Books, 2003
However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her.
It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us.
We must find the way back to her again.
(Rudolf Steiner, image Elisabeth Körber)
