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The Year of the Turtle found in this Book of Environmental Wisdom

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Be apart of it  — 2020 is Designed “Year of the Turtle” by Zoologist and Conservation Organisations.

Turtles Planet is a work of philosophical fact and fiction by ordinated Daoist Munk Rou. This beautifully written work of thought deeply explored the bond between humans and animals — the wisdom they teach us, the wounds they can heal, and the role we play in their destruction. 

A Daoist focus on personal cultivation, environmental conservation, and political and social justice. Daoist Monk Yun Rou received his academic education at Yale, Cornell, and the University of California and was ordained a Daoist monk at the Chun Yang (Pure Yang) Taoist Temple in Guangzhou, China. Drawing on fifty years of loving and husbanding turtles, from the car-sized Gian leatherback turtle to the Central Asia tortoise, Monk Yun sounds the alarm of what climate change, global extinction, human intervention, and environmental devastation really mean to their world and to us.

See the world through the eyes of turtles. Turtle planet renders the wonders and suffering of the natural world through the eyes of 18 years exotic turtles. An informational glossary and description of each turtle at the end of the book is provided as a bonus gift to the reader. 

About the Author

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Born Arthur Rosenfeld in America, Yun  Rou (the name means Soft Cloud) was ordained a Daoist monk in China. The host of the hit national public television show “Longevity Tai Chi with Arthur Rosenfeld”, he is the author of award-winning titles and teaches tai chi around the world and in South Florida. As did Alan Watts, his non-fiction books use the wisdom of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching to address climate change, the challenges of culture, society, and everyday living, advancing prescriptions as useful as those in Wayne Dyer’s “Change Your Thought Change Your Life”, but with the easy-meets-west philosophical flavour of Eckhart Tolle and Henry Devid Thoreau. His novels, by contrast, bring the New York literary sensibility to emerging “Silkspunk” genre, blending Chinese history, some science fiction, and fantasy into adventurous, rollicking, through-provoking read.


This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS Media