"Only when we look clearly at what is happening will we build the fortitude and resolve necessary to reconnect with Earth and work toward the dream she is weaving anew."

"This is our pilgrimage: becoming fit to the living world around us, coming home to our truest selves, reweaving frayed connections."

"Dare we pick up the pieces of our heart as it is broken open time and time again and reshape those bits into a greater capacity to hold more--more suffering, more love, more grief, and more joy."

Winner - 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards, Nature Category; Spirituality Category
Finalist - 2024 International Book Award, General Nonfiction
Winner - 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Spirituality Category

Climate grief and ecological crisis
Human connection to nature
Spiritual ecology
Hope and renewal
Interdependence

"Author, spiritual retreat leader, and speaker Leah Rampy examines the interconnectedness of all life on Earth and the human spiritual connection to a planet besieged by climate chaos. Her insightful prose is lyrically rendered, often revealing her deep personal love of the natural world....Thought-provoking and unique, Rampy's book is a fascinating read." -Kate Robinson RECOMMENDED by the US Review

"When the news lands with us, the news of the deepening trouble around and ahead, there can be a rush to action and to answers. The urgency of the climate crisis is hard to deny. Yet if we move straight into action, then we will act from where we were before we heard the news, as if unchanged by what we have learned, and our actions will reproduce the patterns that brought us here. Action is needed, yes - but first we must allow ourselves to be changed: humbled, called into question, opened up. Earth and Soul is a book that is brimming with stories of what this looks like, and exercises that you can put into practice. There's beauty here among the darkness, and wisdom for hard times." -Dougald Hine, Co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and author of At Work in the Ruins

"Leah Rampy importantly reminds us that our Soul is of Earth and that, until these two are rewoven, our Soul will not be well, and Earth will not be healed. This book beautifully belongs to a new threshold of hope." -John Philip Newell, Author of Sacred Earth Sacred Soul

"Achingly beautiful, Earth and Soul presents a clear-eyed look at our current climate chaos and invites us to go deeply into our souls to find the courage and hope to love and to act. A must-read for anyone who feels despair about the climate crisis. This book will energize and transform you." -Margaret Benefiel, Executive Director of Shalem Institute, author of Crisis Leadership and The Soul of a Leader

"Earth and Soul calls us to develop our capacity for listening and seeing the natural world around us and to rediscover our deep interconnection with it. Through story, science, and experience, Leah Rampy lovingly yet bracingly invites us to envision the climate crisis as an opportunity to weave a new world out of the fragments of the old. "Earth and Soul" is a beautiful and timely invitation!" -Rev. Bryan Berghoef, Pastor, contemplative, and author of Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation and God

"Leah Rampy's Earth and Soul is a teaching sung lovingly to each reader by a wise grandmother, blessing us with ancestors' stories and lessons from our kin in the natural world. If we listen, she is passing down a sacred gift to us for meeting the climate crisis and for weaving a better world." -Joelle Novey, Director, Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA)

"Leah Rampy has made a great and lyrical contribution toward "the metaphorical work of reweaving soul and Earth." By turns storyteller and naturalist, spiritual guide and leadership coach, the author invites our inmost selves into true communion with the world -- for its benefit, and for our own. Rampy's eminently readable narrative is the warp, through which she deftly weaves wise insights from a wide range of disciplines, traditions, and thinkers. This worthy volume will soften hearts, open minds, lift spirits, and inspire action; it is a gift to soul, and to Earth, both." -Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and Interfaith Power and Light

"Dr. Rampy's book is a call to us to find our soulful connection to the rest of life on Earth and know that our failure to do so will ultimately become the end of our living planet—homosapiens included. Not just for the sake of ourselves, but for those living beings who help to sustain life here—from trees to oceans, from microscopic organisms to human beings, and the generations that we hope will follow. We need to come alive and find consciousness for our role in saving our Mother, called 'Earth.'"-Therese Taylor-Stinson, Author of Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman; Founding Managing Member/President, Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd.

"Drawing on the great wisdom traditions and her own deep experience at the intersection of nature and spirit, Leah Rampy invites readers onto a pilgrimage to help heal this world and ourselves. Her book is a much-needed balm for our troubled souls in this time of climate crisis." -Mary Anne Hitt, Climate leader and strategist, contributor to climate anthologies All We Can Save and Not Too Late

"In Earth and Soul Leah Rampy takes us on a journey to reclaim our purpose, mind, heart, and place - and yes, joy - in a time of extreme uncertainty for all Earth. We accompany Leah on her own journey through exquisitely rendered storytelling as she asks the questions that need to be asked and nudges us into deeper relationship with ourselves, all Earth's inhabitants, and the Holy." -Lindsay McLaughlin, Retreat Leader, Writer, Editor, Friends of Silence

"Through effective use of metaphor, deeply personal stories and professional experiences, Leah Rampy blends lessons from scientists and spiritual leaders to inspire a deeper relationship with the Earth and her intricately woven systems. She provides thoughtful tools to help us slow down and acknowledge our place in the larger cosmos so we can reconnect and gain wisdom from the natural wonders we forget surround us." -Kristin Alexander, Executive Director, Potomac Valley Audubon Society