Turtle Planet

As an established international teacher and speaker, Monk Yun Rou has a strong following and media presence.  His recent engagements and distribution contacts include: The American Heart Association - Key note speaker  Host of National Public Television's Longevity Tai Chi - 2 million viewers The Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Society  The Turtle Conservancy  PETA  The Nature Conservancy  The National Audubon Society The Center for Biodiversity The Florida Wildlife Federation The National Wildlife Federation Yale University - speaker and contributor Yale Alumni - Membership and magazine The International Conference on Daoist Studies - Keynote speaker The National Zoo Andrew Weil Center University of Tucson  The Osher Center for Lifelong Learning - National - over 122 chapters Arizona Public Media Citizen's Climate Lobby Yale School of Public Health - Climate Change and Health Alumni ACLU of Arizona Arizona Wilderness Coalition Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection The Desert Museum Environmental Education Exchange National Parks Conservation Society Sierra Club WildEarth Guardians The Wilderness Society

Explore the Amazing Bond Between Humans and Animals

“Turtles have been a part of earth’s natural balance for hundreds of millions of years…In this passionate, shining work, Yun Rou champions their cause and indicts our self-destructive relationship with Mother Earth." —William Holmstrom, Wildlife Conservation Society

#1 New Release in Biology of Reptiles & Amphibians and Taoism

Turtle lover and Daoist Monk Yun Rou shares a beautiful depiction of the wonders of the world—and a powerful plea for preserving our planet—in this fictional philosophical tale.

Turtle Planet, a unique work of philosophical fact and fiction by ordained Daoist Monk Yun Rou, explores the wonders and suffering of the natural world through the eyes of eighteen exotic turtles. This beautifully written book deeply explores the intimate bond between humans and animals―the wisdom they teach us, the wounds they can heal, and the role we play in their destruction.

A call for 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 giant Leatherback turtle to the Central Asian tortoise, Monk Yun Rou sounds the alarm of what climate change, global extinction, human intervention, and environmental devastation really mean to their worlds and to ours.

See the world through the eyes of turtles.  An informational glossary and description of each turtle at the end of the book is provided as a bonus gift to readers.