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978-0-89587-289-0
0-89587-289-7
$12.95 paperback
5 x 7 3/4
For more information, visit the
website for Wanda and Frank's PBS show Simple
Living with Wanda Urbanska
Also by Wanda Urbanksa and Frank Levering:
Nothing's too Small to Make a
Difference
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Originally published in 1992,
long before "simple living" became a hot marketing trend, this
groundbreaking work eloquently makes the case for a simpler, less
stressful life. Told by Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska, a literary
couple who met as students at Harvard and moved from the fast lane in Los
Angeles to take over a family orchard in southwestern Virginia, Simple
Living is the story of their decision to put more meaning into their lives
while eliminating unnecessary debt and superfluous consumption, as well as
lessening their environmental footprint. Levering and Urbanska have
written what many have hailed as a classic in the field: a personal yet
grittily realistic memoir about their quest for more meaningful values in
a consumer-driven society. Theirs is an honest account of what it means to
live not outside the system but within it while at the same time claiming
one's own values. While simple living has many definitions, Levering and
Urbanska identify its focus as environmental stewardship, thoughtful
consumption, community activism, and financial responsibility. Drawing on
case studies of others throughout the country who are choosing to
simplify, Simple Living suggests ways that you can simplify your life, not
by any 10-step plan but by taking measures that make sense for you.
As relevant today as when it was first published, Simple Living is
reprinted here with a new preface by the authors and a foreword by Millard
and Linda Fuller, founders of Habitat for Humanity International.
National lecturers, workshop leaders, and authors or co-authors of seven
books, Levering and Urbanska have appeared on Oprah, CBS This Morning, the
Today show, and NPR's All Things Considered. They've been featured in USA
Today, Redbook, Family Circle, and Glamour. They now own and operate
Levering Orchard, the largest cherry orchard in the South, located in the
Blue Ridge Mountains.
"Levering and Urbanska have done with their tale of orcharding in
Virginia what Scott and I have tried to do with our story of maple
sugaring in Vermont. . . .They looked for a better life and found it.
Their hard work in the country became fun, for all the toil and setbacks.
. . . I admire what they have done in the living and the
telling."
-Helen K. Nearing, co-author of Living the Good Life
"This is a story about reaping the harvest of what you sow. . . . As
satisfying as the taste of a sweet summer fruit."
-- Chicago Tribune
about the authors
National
lecturers, workshop leaders, and authors or co-authors of seven books,
Levering and Urbanska are producing a television series, Simplify Your
Life with Wanda Urbanska, which will be nationally broadcast on PBS in
2004. They have appeared on Oprah, CBS This Morning, the Today
show, and NPR’s All Things Considered. They’ve been featured in
USA Today, Redbook, Family Circle, and Glamour. They now own
and operate Levering Orchard, the largest cherry orchard in the South,
located in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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