The Answer takes a deep look at how nature can provide us with answers to life’s everyday dilemmas. Packed with lovely nature photography, this small book is the perfect antidote for all those times you’ve raged, “It’s too hard!”. Created as a series of questions and answers, it reads like a conversation with a wise old master. Complain, for instance, that you’ve searched in vain for clarity, and nature urges you to reach out again like a plant straining for the sun. “Lack of success can make you hesitate. But what if your fingertips stop just short of what you seek? Is it not worth trying again? What’s stopping you?”
If your plea is, “What can I do when I’m left powerless and empty?” then nature’s answer is: “Rebuild. Waves always gather again. And look at how, in the garden, plants spear up out of dense earth in daily defiance of gravity. Given that such slender stems are so strong, how can your own struggle be too hard?”
The Answer is a visually exciting book filled with inspiration, peace and insight. It nurtures you with every exquisite photo, while its words of wisdom can refresh and encourage every jaded soul.
Author biography Lindsey Dawson is the author of six previously published books, including two novels, Angel Baby and Lipstick in the Dust. Her last title was a baby boomers’ guide to life called Wise Up! How to be Fearless and Fulfilled in Midlife. The photographer is Trish Whillans. Their histories include 15 years of shared experience leading top national magazines, including Next and Grace (Lindsey as editor and Trish as marketing director). Both live in Auckland, New Zealand, and all of Trish’s images are derived from New Zealand bush, beach and garden.
ISBN: 978-0-473-12435-9, paperback, 85 pages, full colour photos throughout
