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The Human Nature of NEED and FEED - A Modern Treatise
Otillia M. Richmond, MH
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Food for Thought
Stuff, so much stuff, why do humans need so much stuff? Whether we have a place to put it or actually use it up, people perpetually buy more stuff. When homes become filled, we park outside, when garages reach their limits, we rent a unit, further expensing our mountains of stuff. Storage rents often exceeding the value of what's stored inside.
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A Look at Nature
Learn more about the natural world to inspire respect for the Earth's ecosystem.
Links for Resources
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In the Spotlight
- Are you concerned about your health or have questions about diet and nutrition?
- Do you experience difficulty controlling your weight or staying fit?
- Do you worry about the planet or wonder what you can do to make a difference?
Or, do you simply desire knowledge and perception to further your intuition, develop freedom, and most of all, find personal wellbeing? If yes answers any of these questions, this may be the read for you.
This modern treatise uncovers the many facets of nature, exposing human strengths, frailties, and the crux at which humans have arrived, offering readers insight into current human needs and how these modern and civilized needs combine with our ancient human natures to contour who we are, how we live, and the world we occupy, influencing our wellbeing.
In book one, The Cat Searching for an Open Window, modern human needs are explored in depth, from air, water, nutrition, and medicine, needs on the inside, to needs on the outside-shelter, tools, education, time-including money, governance, and other external needs humans have industrialized to accept as needs.
Health from the Hearth, book two, translates human needs to our position in nature's scheme, introducing the varied and numerous resources for feed and futher need, delivering the necessary ingredients for a healthy human diet. You will discover how nature nurtures nature, and recognize how to formulate the recipes for health and cuisine, learning how to use these ingredients to craft a life fueling the body, feeding the spirit, and bringing peace to the mind.
And finding wellbeing doesn't stop there; this voice goes on to provide the basic formulas, simple recipes, and the necessary instruction to use nature's offerings how they are intended-earth to hearth. Whether making bread or brewing beer, making soup or soap, or in pursuit of natural remedies for healing, The Human Nature of NEED and FEED is truly the compendium to do so. This modern treatise allows everyone avenues to find personal wellbeing during a time when conservation, sustainability, and health are foremost in changing human behaviors.

Be it the knowledge to understand the whys, the practice to establish the hows, or the tools to make it happen. Decades of practice and study deliver a textbook from one human’s journey: years of education and exploration joined with philosophy, new and old, the hindsight of our history, and modern scientific discoveries and technologies.
The Human Nature of NEED and FEED is an easy to read manual for wisdom to pursue wellbeing and survival in this century, for those who have health, peace, independence, preparedness, and the planet Earth on their minds. These two books in one are worthy of a spot on the shelf or a place at the table.
800 pages
66 chapters
hard cover/color
2 BOOKS IN 1
full index
recipe index
appendix
BOOK ONE:
Cat Searching for an Open Window
Part 1 the new nature of human need - finding wellbeing inside.
Part 2 the new nature of human need - finding wellbeing outside.
BOOK TWO:
Health from the Hearth
Part One introduction to the kingdoms of life - elements for wellbeing
Part Two crafting nature's ingredients - elements for living

About the Voice
Otillia M. Richmond, MH
Residing in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains, a modern sage-natural healer, master herbalist, gardener, and brewer, artist, educator, explorer, philosopher, and poet-Tilli uses her near lifetime of experience and study to offer readers, young and old, an elementary treatise of discovery and practice for environmenally conscience healthy living to
find wellbeing.
Autumn 2023

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The Human Nature of NEED and FEED will enlighten and educate anyone who wants to know what they can do and how they can do it, for a journey of self discovery to find personal wellbeing.
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Books are aslo available through major retailers, or inquire at your favorite bookstore.
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Technology: The Extinction of Experience, Being Human in a Disembodied World, Christine Rosen, 2024
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Opinion: Capitalism and Inequality, Arlo Holders, 2025
Economics: Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, Brook Harrington, 2024
Restarting the Future, How to Fix the Intangible Economy, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, 2020
Environment: Made to Break, Technology and Obsolescence in America, Giles Spade, 2013
Sustainable Minimalism, Stephanie Marie Seferian, 2021
Great Courses Audio Lectures:
Propaganda and Persuasion, Dannagal G. Young, 2023
Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy, Tera Susman-Peña, Mehri Druckman, and Nina Oduro, 2020
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