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Heather Durham

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Heather Durham is a nature essayist and naturalist who holds a master of science in
environmental biology from Antioch New England University and a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. She’s held a variety of environmental jobs around the country, from interpretive park ranger to field biologist, trails worker to restoration ecologist. She currently lives and writes in a feral river valley northeast of Seattle where she serves as an administrator at Wilderness Awareness School. Her essays have been published in a variety of literary journals; Going Feral is her first book.

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Average rating: 4.5 · 36 ratings · 16 reviews ·3 distinct works •Similar authors

	Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Tree: An Ecopsychological Memoir In Essays 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I loved this book, and have given it a forever home among my favorite essay collections. I think the publisher and/or marketing department did this book a disservice by making it sound more like a self-help book or a more general philosophical, psych ...more
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“Sometimes, I am the beast in the darkness. Sometimes, I am the ghost.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: animal, beast, feral, ghost, nature, nocturnal, nocturne, wildlife

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“That little owl with a call as steady as my heartbeat was telling anyone who would listen, ‘I am here.’ We were listening. We’re listening still.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: birds, birdwatching, citizen-science, listening, nature, night, owls, wildlife

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“I needed pain; I needed blood. Judge me if you want, but I’m talking about my own body. My own catharsis. About marking myself with beauty instead of ugliness.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: beauty, blood, body, catharsis, cutting, pain, tattoo

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“Maybe you were never actually lonely for other people. All along, maybe you were lonely for the earth.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: coming-of-age, earth, feral, nature, nature-writing, solitude

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“This something sparked on a little island off the rocky coast of Maine would grow from a twinge to a hunger to a need you would spend years, a decade, a lifetime pursuing.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: adventure, contemplation, earth, feral, introspection, nature, solitude, wandering

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“In reaching for stone, wood, water, and feather, I found my own edges softening, scars fading.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: coming-of-age, earth, ecology, healing, nature, solace, solitude

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“Was I hiding from reality, on the outside looking in? Or, was I living my reality, on the outside looking out?”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: feral, hermit, introspection, introvert, nature, reality, wallflower

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“I think I might like to grow thorns. Tough spines that barb anyone who grabs at me, tries to take from me, moves toward me any way other than delicately. Or thick boney horns I can point in front of me to shield the soft, sensitive parts. Not cruel, protected.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

tags: desert, feral, guarding, nature, protection, sensitivity

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