Wonder-Streams of the Soul is a beautiful, inspiring collection of poems and philosophical passages accompanied by exquisite images-all reaped from a lifetime of vast, diverse, and treasured experiences and insights!

Wonder Streams of the Soul unites imagination and visions of the soul with the workings of logic and revelations of science. As it befits life’s true nature, it marvelously brings hearts and minds together. Uniting diverse, even opposite, facets open a beautiful vision of hope for all life’s future by which to guide your steps. Conceived by a keen, truth-seeking intelligence and an exquisite moral and aesthetic sense, Wonder Streams of the Soul blossoms with meanings that cry out for recognition today. It can be brought to life by anyone humbly open to receiving them using the power and majesty of words.

Further, the book’s conceptions confront life’s most crucial dilemmas and are soul-liberating. They draw upon profound lessons of the past while simultaneously tapping future-oriented visions.

Similarly, Wonder Streams of the Soul delves deeply into all life’s true nature and spirit. Its lyrical messages obey a great inspirational calling that breaks free from many cultural confines. This exciting book speaks to the heart and soul while awakening the mind with greater meaning and vision for life. Logically organized into several categories, the poems’ and passages’ spontaneous and evocative styles move us unexpectedly. Here are brilliant messages that describe individual personas and give insights into past and future lives, evolution, language, poetry, music, genius, dreams, prophecies, religion, reverence for life, love, etc. Certain fascinating poems and passages depict animals, such as wild horses and mountain tapirs, and their unique and vital roles on Earth. Many writings combine biological principles with a proper grasp of life’s higher spirit and essence. The author’s communications here are excellent! They present the religion of the heart and mind together. These are poems and passages that are unto salvation! They elevate readers through a gifted, magical artistry of words and are accompanied by superb photographs and illustrations that greatly complement and are in tune with this free-spirited work.

Book Review

Craig Carpenter Downer’s extensive collection of poems, journal entries, and essays is the work of a devoted lifelong naturalist and adventurer. Much of the book is dedicated to his observations, insights, and experiences as a scholar of the natural world.

Downer’s poems are both rhyming and free verse. The wide-ranging topics include the majesty of wild horses, the speaker’s time as a shaman, money, love, morality, a climb up Mount Shasta, and more. The work exuberantly credits God as the source of truth and glory.

The essays are equally abstract and concerned mainly with spiritual and philosophical issues. Selections from the author’s notebook include descriptions of nature and thoughts of philosophy and faith.

Author Profile

Craig’s remarkable life has put him in touch with diverse species, cultures, and places. He has worked in the United States, South America, and Europe, giving speeches at conferences and teaching courses.

A lifelong truth seeker, he has burrowed into all areas of Biology, majoring in Ecology, and even studied History, Philosophy, Music, English, French, and Spanish. With an innate affinity for all diverse creatures, he grew up around wilderness along the Nevada-California border.  

He has worked for ecological and animal non-government organizations, studied and taught at different universities, been a legal plaintiff for species and nature protection, testified in Congress, and done a ground-breaking telemetric study of Andean Tapir in Ecuador’s Sangay National Park, or the endangered Mountain.

On the other hand, Craig is president of the Andean Tapir Fund, an IUCN Species Survival Committee member, and a Nevada Poetry Society member.

Moreover, as a fine nature photographer, he has had images on the covers of notable books, magazines, and journals.