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Reviews

"Music can make things happen... a path to understanding the Earth. Truly a diverse collection with a universal theme ÷ planetary kinship. Take it to the piano. Sing the songs with your kids. Sing them to the trees in the yard. And just see if the world doesn't look a bit brighter."
E The Environmental Magazine

"At last, the resource book those of us who love to sing have been awaiting. Songs For Earthlings is far and away the best collection of chants and sing-alongs to open the heart and awaken the spirit."
Robert Gass, Musician and Author (Chant: Spirit in Sound)

"Suitable for many occasions, this book needs to be discovered by individuals and groups everywhere who want to sing a greener, more harmonious Earth community into being one song at a time."
Talking Leaves

"The Earth makes her own constant music, with wind and water and air. As creatures of Earth, we are happiest when we can add our voices to the song around us. Julie Forest Middleton has given us a treasure in this treasury of songs that honor the Earth and ourselves."
Patricia Monaghan, Author (Goddesses and Heroines, Magical Gardens)

"Pantheists now have a hymnal!"
Pantheist Vision

"... One of the most useful and soon-to-be best-loved songbooks available."
Reclaiming Quarterly

"It's hard to find a socially and spiritually attuned songbook that offers an enterfaith spectrum of songs for people of all generations. Or it was, until this splendid collection ... came into being.... While Middleton may not originally have targeted the parenting/children niche, her collection is brimful of songs to grow up with, including a good sampling of such proven favorites as `Amazing Grace' and hard-to-find tunes appropriate for such times as acknowledging a girl's passage to womanhood.... Clear musical notation simplifies sight-reading while singing over the piano player's shoulder, and thematic organization makes it easy to track down songs suited to particular occasions."
NAPRA ReView

"If you are a music teacher, or music counselor at a summer camp, or in any kind of church, it will repay you to leaf through this book. You may pass by twenty songs, and then find one that
is exactly what you're looking for. I hope it goes through many editions."
Pete Seeger, Musician and Musicologist

"A beautiful and useful resource for all who love the Earth."
Starhawk,Theologian and Author (Spiral Dance, Dreaming the Dark, Truth or Dare, The Fifth Sacred Thing, Walking to Mercury)

"This remarkable work could become the standard 'hymnal' for the modern spiritual movement.
I believe everyone who works in modern circles today would want to own a copy, and whole groups would want them so that they could sing together. Until now, nothing of this quality has been available, and a very great need exists."
Anodea Judith, Author and Teacher (Wheels of Life; Eastern Body, Western Mind)

"Songs For Earthlings is a wonderfully useable collection of musical resources celebrating our connection to the Earth and to the feminine. There are songs to be sung alone, in small group settings, and in worship. There are songs for family occasions. Many thanks to Julie Forest Middleton for gathering them for this Earth family to use."
Reverend Susan Cady Cole, Pastor, Arch Street United Methodist Church, Philadelphia
(Co-author Wisdom's Feast: Sophia in Study and Celebration)

"Thanks so much for the beautiful song book. I'm very proud that my puma padded into it, and I like the tune. Keep on singing!"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Author

"Songs come through many doors -- are sung, are changed, are lost, are found. A singer with many songs up her/his sleeve is ever ready. Songbooks on the shelf are good back-up. Julie offers up her spiritual collection to add to the tool box."
Holly Near, Singer and Songwriter

"It is a tremendous work, the most comprehensive collection of Pagan/Earth-centered songs and chants I've yet seen. She's got a 9-lesson series on reading music, a nice bio section where you can actually read a couple of lines about the people who wrote some of the songs, and hundreds of songs (433 to be exact)."
Anne Hill, Serpentine Music Productions

"WHAT A BOOK! I've placed an order for another three of the books to give as gifts. This book is WONDERFUL! Thank you for doing it. One of the gals I showed it to is involved in quite a few groups, many of whom do ritual songs and dances. This book will get quite a wide circulation through the people I am gifting."
Glenda Martin, Associate Editor, Crone Chronicles

"This book has been a long time coming and is most welcome. The great range of songs gathered together introduces the reader to wonderful music from distantly related groups and highlights again and again our commonality of spirit. A movement and even a revolution of consciousness are surely vital and alive if it displays an active folk process. Its people are joyfully unified when we sing together. Julie Forest Middleton has done a great thing in bringing together and sharing so much of our folk music, and doing it so very well. Thanks, Julie, I'll see you round the bonfire one day and bring you a new song!"
Diane Conn Darling, PanGaia Magazine

"Thanks for the book -- it's GREAT! You did such a fine job with all the text, organization, into ... a work of dedication. I'll do what I can to get the word out."
Betsy Rose, Singer/Songwriter

"The song book opens up another view of your world and your feelings. Thank you so much for putting it together. It's a fine collection and statement of caring to the world. We are already using it as a reference."
Betty Greene, England

"The book is glorious. Hope it sells the gazillion copies it deserves to. It is a treasure you have given to us 'earthlings'."
Heather Alexander, Maine

"The first person I showed this book to in my home town said, 'Oh, I hope you're going to start a circle. We need to sing these songs!' And so I will. And you will. For now we have a tool."
Barbara Clark, California

"Thank you for creating such a beautiful, inspiring, and useful gift to all of us. I stayed up til past midnight with it the day it arrived -- and realized I'll be studying it for weeks, learning song after incredible song. The other thing about the book -- for me as a songwriter -- I feel surrounded by kindred spirits! We are all singing about this mystery, this beauty, this earth, this life, in celebration, for connection, for healing. Thank you for introducing us to each other. I love knowing there are all these grassroots singers, growing like grass everywhere, singing everywhere they go, like the grass sings."
Cynthia Crossen, North Carolina

"I simply can't tell you how impressed I am with your songbook. I've only had it for two hours, and haven't had time to read it all through (much less sing it) but it is such a wonderfully spiritual book -- the sayings and quotes and comments -- that it becomes much more than just the songs. I am so proud of you, of course for the first-class work it represents, but also for the sense of world community that it exudes and the humanity it expresses!"
Suze Eckley, California

"I got a copy of Songs for Earthlings and it's GREAT. Every time I go by the table I am pulled over by The Book and have to sit down for a few more minutes. I surprise the dogs by bursting into song. You've done a glorious job on this. This is THE definitive work on women's spirituality music."
Jeanne Hardy, South Dakota

"Dear, dear intrepid person! Your incredible book just this minute arrived and I'm whooping with excitement and want to tell you immediately. Thank you for this amazing five-year birthing, for your incredible labors. What a vision you have held. This will be savored by many people, and is indeed truly a gift to the planet. I know how much work this takes -- thank you for never letting go. This really matters. Thanks for all it took! It's so splendid."
Sarah Pirtle, Massachusetts