| #1792070 in Books | Island Press | 2003-04-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.70 x5.75l,.82 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Scaling back ones impact on the Earth. One woman's story.|By D. T. Morgan|This book is a story of a woman who has dedicated her life to scaling back her impact on the Earth. She readily admits her ways are not foolproof nor are they for everybody, but she makes a good try at living what she believes in.|4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.|From Booklist|Common usage equates epicurean with gourmet, so Mills' title may seem like an oxymoron, but Epicurus' philosophy actually focuses on simple pleasures, on savoring life as found in natur
"In this book, I relate the pleasures, as well as the virtues and difficulties of a perhaps simpler than average North American life." So begins ecological thinker and writer Stephanie Mills's Epicurean Simplicity, a thoughtful paean to living, like Thoreau, a deliberate life.
Mills's account of the simple life reaches deep into classical sources of pleasure -- good food, good health, good friends, and particularly the endless delights of the natural world. H...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Epicurean Simplicity | Stephanie Mills.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
