Wendy Weiger, MD, PhD | Author of Heaven Beneath Our Feet

En route from Allagash Lake to Chesuncook Lake, summer 2011.

[Photo by Mike Hiza.]

Snowshoeing across the ice of First Roach Pond to my Maine Woods "camp," pulling my supply-laden gear sled, February 2021.

[Photo by Eddie O'Leary.]

Atop the summit of Katahdin, February 9 2012.

[Photo by Jim Albert or Leo Bolduc.]

Sunrise viewed from the shore of my Maine Woods “camp” on First Roach Pond, December 2020.

Moonset over the Saddle, Baxter State Park, February 10 2012, 6:19 AM.

I had climbed to Katahdin’s summit via the Saddle the day before.

Staircase, Madawaska River, Ontario, spring 2007.

I’m paddling a Mad River Outrage. [Photo by Lisa Utronki.]

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Bigelow Range, summer 2012.

[Photo by an anonymous passing hiker.]

Barren Ledges above Lake Onawa, Appalachian Trail, fall 2013.

[Photo by Mark Young.]

A visit to my Maine Woods “camp” on First Roach Pond, late December 2012.

In winter, I travel on snowshoes, with gear sled in tow. [Photo by Brian Souza.]

Wendy Weiger, Author of the upcoming book, Heaven Beneath Our Feet: Finding God and Healing in the Wild

If we open our eyes and our hearts, we see miracles all around us in nature.
An intimate relationship with nature heals us on multiple levels. Physical. Emotional. Spiritual.
We humans—along with every bird, every tree, every animal—are part of a vast and sacred web of life that sustains us all.
But we’re unraveling the web. We’ve been spending nature’s wealth as though it had no end. And we may doom half of Earth’s species to extinction over the next hundred years.
If that happens, we will undermine the future of humanity in ways we’re only beginning to understand.
To save the wild is to save ourselves.
Time is growing short. Will we let the miracles we hold in our hands slip through our fingers?

Read Vision Quest, an excerpt from an early draft of my book, as published in Down East magazine. (pdf version)

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Living Every Season: A Mindful Year in the Maine Woods

Living Every Season guides readers through the annual cycle of four vividly distinct seasons in the Maine Woods: the frigid white winter; the long, slow reawakening of spring; the lush green summer; and the glorious, almost impossibly bright autumn that fades, inexorably, into the austerity of another winter. Photos range from dramatic vistas of mountains, lakes, and skies to small details casual observers might miss: the delicacy of maple blossoms scattered on spring snow; the earthy colors and rich patterns of a fungus digesting a decaying log; the grace of a shadow cast by small leaves onto a trailside stone.

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