Dark Cloud Country

An impassioned celebration of life in all its complex wonderment. -James Canton, Author of The Oak Papers and Grounded If you relish poetic writing, if you are in awe of existence ever in the process of creating, and if you delight in beauty, mystery, and wonder, you will dance with Daniel through the four relationships of regeneration-chaos, bounds, art, and singularity-as Dark Cloud Country delights your mind and dazzles your spirit. -Fred Provenza, Professor emeritus, behavioral ecology, Utah State University; author of Nourishment Dark Cloud Country captivates us and stirs our souls. I finished the book yearning for more but realizing that I could find more simply by embracing life! -Gabe Brown, Author of Dirt to Soil Dark Cloud Country is a short book that reads like a long one. Carefully we must walk through Griffith's words to find the nourishment our souls require. Dark Cloud Country is written in a language that digs through the innermost being, like a sacred encounter-the kind your keep closed somewhere special in your heart. Griffith's words are a great call, a nudge, a whisper, and a tap on the shoulder for all of us to remember the essence of regeneration: a beautiful story. -Precious Phiri, Co-Founder of Igugu Trust, African Coordinator for Regeneration International, educator and farmer in Hwange Community, Zimbabwe Reading Dark Cloud Country is like watching a murmuration of starlings. The mind swerves. Dives. Rises. It travels to surprising places. The heart too. -Mary Reynolds Thompson, Author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul and A Wild Soul Woman With Dark Cloud Country, Griffith has written prose that equals the wild itself-an entangled whole that is ever growing and only yielding fruit if the reader lets go of their illusion of being able to control its aliveness. -Andreas Weber, Biologist, philosopher, and author of The Biology of Wonder and Matter and Desire Daniel Griffith's Dark Cloud Country isn't your typical how-to save the planet guide. Instead, it proposes an antidote to the way we live our lives as individuals. Dark Cloud Country is a thought-provoking challenge to the stories we tell ourselves. Open up and let Griffith's words flow through you. You might be surprised what you find. -Anthony Gustin, DC, MS, Host of The Natural State Podcast author of Keto Answers Daniel Griffith's incantations don't attempt to merely teach, discover, or inspire; instead, he invites us to remember ourselves in an intimate dance with creation. At once familiar and confronting, Dark Cloud Country is a deep well of wisdom whose waters I will no doubt draw from for many years to come. -David Leon, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Farmer's Footprint Dark Cloud Country is a magical, artful meditation on what it means to be human in the here-and-now: a salve to the excruciating buzzing of a civilization composting around us. It's a request to sit still and listen to all that circumambulates us through all timelines. It is a love-letter to lineage, togetherness, and all magic that can be gleaned from rootedness and relationship. It is a song for the death that unites us all. -Maren Morgan, Writer/Filmmaker/Podcaster and Co-creator of Death in The Garden