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Jay Griffiths talk on 'How Animals Heal Us'
date
29 Jul 2025 19:00 - 21:00
venue
The Hanging Gardens, Bethel St, Llanidloes SY18 6BS
cost
Free
event info
organiser
Jay Griffiths
Event Description
The Hanging Gardens, Llanidloes will host Jay Griffiths speaking about her new book 'How Animals Heal Us'.
No book has changed my thinking about Nature more quickly and more fundamentally than this moving, essential work. Nobody writes about Nature - the world and us in it - with more beauty and grace than Jay Griffiths. She senses connections so deep and so resonant that they ring on and on in my mind.
- Brian Eno on How Animals Heal Us
'A pure praise poem to the more than human world, a poem filled with love, respect and joy. It thrums with wit, wisdom, understanding and research. But mostly the joy of being connected to life, from the smallest insect to the great whales.'
-Jackie Morris
Pet-owners and animal-lovers instinctively know that animals heal. This book offers the evidence, drawing widely on scientific discoveries, history, and Indigenous knowledge.
We meet a pot-bellied pig who saved her owner's life, lions who guarded a girl from kidnappers, dolphins and whales rescuing people in danger, and dogs who can smell cancer and phone the Emergency Services.
Animal sounds, from insects to birdsong and the purring of cats, are directly medicinal and their presence can heal the pain of loneliness. Animals, including donkeys, can be natural therapists for the hurt psyche, alleviating trauma, fear and depression.
Animals are good role models for societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder. Wolves may be teachers of ethics; monkeys and dogs can object to unfairness and bees take collective decisions. Animals are irresistible medicine for a healthy culture, animating the arts with spectacular vitality and verve, as poetry knows.
How Animals Heal Us puts animals at the heart of a restorative vision of health.
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