“I’ve been waiting for years for a book series like this! In Bring Back The Earth! Eco-Legacy, Candia leaves behind preachy, dogmatic theories and brings us something truly unique and practical with the potential to create healing for many generations to come. Through the use of nourishing foods, a connection to nature, and attention to our inner needs, she brings us back to wholeness with our selves, nature, and the planet. We can then experience a deep and profound healing on all levels.  I often wish that school health classes would incorporate wellness concepts into their curriculums, but due to time restraints, budget shortfalls, and competing interests, this is often not possible. To meet this problem, Candia has created a timely, eco-integrated education model for use in the home. Her learning ‘supplement’ (offering vegetarian lifestyle options) is a thoughtful addition to her core educational paradigm and will please public school teachers and students. Our children and teens hold the keys to our future. May they also hold the empowering message of this book in their hands and hearts forever!”

Dr. Cynthia Foster, M.D., author of “Stop The Medicine!”

“So much of our culture espouses ‘environmentalism.’ In reality, apart from the ‘basics’ that began with “do not litter”, and later, “reduce, reuse and recycle,” there is a lack of in-depth approaches to the issues. Children and teens especially need to know ‘why’ these issues are vital to the health and well-being of “oikos”, -the ‘houses’ symbolizing our bodies and the earth. Bring Back The Earth! educational paradigm covers a wide body of knowledge that I would want my, and all maturing children to grasp. It is not just a cliché, ‘children are our future’. The “Bring Back The Earth!” book series provides several excellent, creative tools (for both learners and mentors) with which we ‘can’ and ‘will’ empower the next stewards of our blue-green planet.”

Bonnie Rubinstein Bloch- parent, founder of Eco Source (Solutions for Waste Management) River Falls, Wisconsin.

“On the surface, Bring Back The Earth! looks like a book about eco-friendly food choices. But upon closer examination, one realizes that it is a deep and poetic study of ‘relationships.’ Through her own amazing health journey, Candia inspires the fact that, health is ‘more’ than a function of eating well. It is a function of awareness about (the relationships between) our bodies, our minds, our spirits, our homes, our earth, and all living eco systems of which we are a part.”

Dale Vanderjagt, naturalist and citizen for environmental welfare

I am impressed. No, I am in awe of your commitment to this work and your courage to communicate it so clearly. Bring Back The Earth! is purposeful and practical and, therefore, powerful. I am adamantly convinced that whoever embraces and applies this critical message will immensely benefit themselves and the world we all share.”

Ron L. Fronk, Ph.D. Wholistic Health Sciences, M.A. Psychology- parent, national speaker, and author of “Creating A Lifestyle You Can Live With”

“Candia’s writings and teachings are in reality, symphonies. She creates living music from the ‘sights’, ‘sounds’, and ‘tastes’ of the natural world that balance and nurture people and their planet. For the young people and their families who are destined to become her students, Bring Back The Earth! is an invitation to grow in the direction that humans and the earth need to grow in.”

Stan Mann- parent, lifestyle educator, teacher, nutritional science researcher and reporter

“As we peak out in our ‘madness’ of over stimulated, over-activitied life, the core of the childrens’ cry is “nobody is home,” “no one ‘hears’ me or ‘touches’ me”…We have reached our peaking moment in our disconnect. What will slow us down, to look and feel again? Only an invitation such as Candia Lea Cole’s Bring Back The Earth! will call out to those of us who are awake, aware, and more than ready to journey back home to our natural connections. ‘Stop’, ‘look’, ‘listen’, and ‘choose again’, come to mind. Are we ready to come back to life yet? Are we ready to live interdependently, become wholly nourished, and thrive in a new global capacity? Thank you, Candia, for your invitation to do so. It ‘is’ the time! Our young people and our families deserve this moment of choosing again. Let us begin!”

Mary M. Regnier, parent, community builder, life coach, and founder of Brilliant Living Center, Minnesota

“Its information excellently outlines a new paradigm, and presents it well”…

Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. , Founder of Project Nature Connect, author, educator, Applied Ecopsycholoigist

"In Bring Back The Earth! Candia Lea Cole makes the case that food is part of an intentional life that consciously encompasses attention to body, mind and spirit. I applaud her effectiveness at explicitly locating humans among all other species ‘within’ nature, rather than ‘outside.’ I very much like this ecologically integrated approach to thinking about  food as part of a much larger set of important health and life issues.”

Dr. Ted Schettler, M.D.- co-author of ”Generations At Risk” & “In Harm’s Way”

“It means a great deal to us to have people like Candia extend their time and attention to us at such an important time in our organization’s history. We look forward to working with her on our National Environmental Childproofing Campaign and incorporating her ideas to achieve our organization’s goals.”

Nancy Chuda- parent, founder & president of CHEC –Children’s Health and Environmental Coalition