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Summary: endorsements and reviews
Review: "Paul Rezendes' very well-written book presents a valuable method of teaching awareness of each moment, moment after moment--the critical practice of this valuable life."--Peter Mattheissen "A truly remarkable book...a rich and somewhat nerve-wracking adventure for all who read it. Rezendes captures the notion of wildness about as well as it can be captured in words, and what is better, he provides some clues for how to find it out for ourselves."--Bill McKibben, author of THE END OF NATURE "Paul Rezendes opens us to ourselves by plunging us into direct and unmediated contact with other creatures, other styles of life and intelligence. Packed with fine stories, dense with hard-earned knowledge of wild beings and their ways, Rezendes' book is strong medicine for un-domesticating the human soul."--David Abram, author of THE SPELL OF THE SENSUOUS "Paul Rezendes reads animal tracks like the rest of us read a book. In THE WILD WITHIN, he shows that he reads Nature even more deeply: like Muir, Leopold, and Abbey, Rezendes goes beyond words to beating-heart intimacy with the wilderness."--Dave Foreman, co-founder of The Wildlands Project and author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-WARRIOR "If Thoreau's Concord neighbors led lives of quiet desperation, many people today rush through lives of frantic, noisy alienation. Paul Rezendes [writes] about tracking, but also much more; [he] shows how to find you way home to the great web of life."-- Dianne Dumanoski, The Boston Globe
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Summary: The Wild Within: Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings
Review: As a new student in the art of tracking I found this book very informative . I feel Mr Rezendes truly knows tracking. I'm very thankful that he was willing to share his lifetime of tracking with us. I feel someone's tracking library would not be complete without this book.
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Summary: To be able to see what we all should strive to see
Review: As a student of tracking I found the book to be both insightful and awakening. Mr. Rezendes is able to put into words, vision, listening, conflict and issues of self which can only make the reader able to appreciate what is actually being said in the out of doors. I truly recommend this book to all those who want to know what they are missing and the steps to get there when they step off of the pavement and want to follow the signs. Mr. Rezendes Thank You!
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Summary: Should Be Read By Every Anyone Interested In The Outdoors
Review: As a tracking instructor, I "recommemd" that each student read this book either before or after attending my class. Mr. Rezendes's tracking courses are also recommemded.Mr. Rezendes guides the reader into a better understanding of the out-of-doors, teaches them how to see, listen and read what is usually missed. In his Chapers on "Stalking Slience", The Territory of Self", and "Speaking Without Words" he teaches that silence and seeing are but several of the requirements of 'becoming' one with the woods and with tracks. Anyone interested in the out-of-doors or tracking should read this book and place it on their tracking book shelf for future reference,if for nothing else, to allow themselves other venues of thought.
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Summary: Should Be Read By Every Anyone Interested In The Outdoors
Review: As a tracking instructor, I "recommemd" that each student read this book either before or after attending my class. Mr. Rezendes's tracking courses are also recommemded. Mr. Rezendes guides the reader into a better understanding of the out-of-doors, teaches them how to see, listen and read what is usually missed. In his Chapers on "Stalking Slience", The Territory of Self", and "Speaking Without Words" he teaches that silence and seeing are but several of the requirements of 'becoming' one with the woods and with tracks. Anyone interested in the out-of-doors or tracking should read this book and place it on their tracking book shelf for future reference,if for nothing else, to allow themselves other venues of thought.
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Summary: One of the best that I continue to re-read
Review: By sharing his incredible life experiences, Paul opens himself and the lessons he has learned as a way of understanding the natural world of which we are part. Paul's book has shed light on previously undiscovered and unobserved occurences in the environment that surrounds my house and inhabits my thoughts. As Paul guides the reader through the discoveries of the relationships between animals, plants and the web of life, he also sheds insight into our actions and our relationship to everything we observe, from watching your pets behaviors to reasoning the need to claim our personal space. I have also attended two of Paul's week-long animal tracking courses. Like the book, his classes have provided a means for any interested person to observe the wilderness, and the wild within. One of my copies of this book has a lot of notes written where the lessons presented offer insight to my experiences, and lack thereof. If you are interested in an easy-to-read, verifiable page-turner, read The Wild Within, and explore the same.
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Summary: It's right in front of you
Review: Everything Paul Rezendes shows his students is right in front of them and requires no explanation. This is an irony the wilderness student is familiar with, and so is the spiritual practitioner. THE WILD WITHIN is a book about tracking, and a delightful record of an enthusiastic and engaging teacher. It is also a very open yet unassuming autobiography, including the author's experiences as leader of a motorcycle gang, yoga student, and now ardent outdoorsman. His spiritual insights are without denomination or zeal, and do not intrude in the slightest upon his tribute to the natural world and the wonders it holds for anyone who will walk softly and listen. The first meeting of a stalking seminar begins when students arrive at the location to find Rezendes's jeep baring a sign that reads, "Your program has begun. You must find your instructor. He is watching you." Students poke around for quite a while, but they cannot find a man who is sitting no more than ten feet away, watching from a thicket. Even when they nearly step on him. Even when he shouts "Turkeys!" at them. Rezendes writes, "Everything we ever need to learn, if we want to know deeply who we are, if we want to know what keeps us from connecting with nature, is all here in front of us all the time. All we have to do is pay attention..." and observe how, as his students learned in this instance, how certain thought habits keep us out of our sensory awareness and separate us from our own life.
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Summary: It's right in front of you
Review: Everything Paul Rezendes shows his students is right in front of them and requires no explanation. This is an irony the wilderness student is familiar with, and so is the spiritual practitioner. THE WILD WITHIN is a book about tracking, and a delightful record of an enthusiastic and engaging teacher. It is also a very open yet unassuming autobiography, including the author's experiences as leader of a motorcycle gang, yoga student, and now ardent outdoorsman. His spiritual insights are without denomination or zeal, and do not intrude in the slightest upon his tribute to the natural world and the wonders it holds for anyone who will walk softly and listen. The first meeting of a stalking seminar begins when students arrive at the location to find Rezendes's jeep baring a sign that reads, "Your program has begun. You must find your instructor. He is watching you." Students poke around for quite a while, but they cannot find a man who is sitting no more than ten feet away, watching from a thicket. Even when they nearly step on him. Even when he shouts "Turkeys!" at them. Rezendes writes, "Everything we ever need to learn, if we want to know deeply who we are, if we want to know what keeps us from connecting with nature, is all here in front of us all the time. All we have to do is pay attention..." and observe how, as his students learned in this instance, how certain thought habits keep us out of our sensory awareness and separate us from our own life.
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Summary: One of a kind
Review: I'm teaching an environmental psychology class and this is the best book I've found to integrate the concepts of the self, thought, and human behavior. Rezendes has a way of explaining complex concepts in a truly engaging and understandable way. My students love this book.
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Summary: The Wild Within is waiting for you.
Review: Most of us lead hurried, demanding lives, cut off from the natural world that surrounds us. The Wild Within walks us back into this natural world, into the sights, sounds, and smells of the wild. Paul Rezendes guides us gently by sharing his own personal trials, revelations and experiences. But, this is more than a book about the outdoors! From his intimidate encounters with wild animals, Paul Rezendes turns to himself and to all of us and examines who we are in the greater scheme of life. Some people may not be ready to let go of their ideas of self, preconceived notions, the control of thought, of ego and fear in order to step into the wild and the wild within, but for those who are ready, the "wild within" is waiting.
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