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ROBIN EASTON is an adventurer. She spent much of her adult life in wild and remote areas including, Alaska, Tasmania, Australia's tropical and subtropical rainforest and the far north woods of Maine. Easton has traveled to New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and has lived throughout Europe. She is a writer, an environmentalist, a speaker/storyteller and a musician.
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Robin grew up in beautiful western Maine, surrounded by lakes, forests and mountains. Most of her childhood was spent outdoors in the woods and near the water. Her parents made a commitment to get their children out of the house, away from the TV and into nature. In her book, Naked in Eden, Robin tells the story of how her father got rid of the family TV and started taking all six of his kids into the wild. |
Dad taking all six of his kids hiking.
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Robin’s father taught her how to handle a canoe, use a bow and arrow, how to fish, hike, camp and rock hound. He sparked her interest in wild edible and medicinal plants and instilled in her a creative and freethinking way of life. He encouraged her to always be adventurous and inquisitive. |
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Early morning mist rises from the
sleeping rainforest. A cacophony of
colorful birds herald the new day
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At the age of twenty-five Easton walked away from society. She left the United States and went to live with her husband in the remote tropical Daintree Rainforest of Queensland, Australia. Robin is extremely passionate about this rainforest; it is the world’s oldest tropical rainforest, home to a vast number of rare and threatened species. |
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In 2002, Robin Easton helped found the Daintree Rainforest Land Trust, (DRLT) http://www.drltrust.org/. Robin worked strenuously contacting hundreds of experts on the ecology of Queensland. As a direct result of her efforts, DRLT assembled an accurate picture of the present state of these ecosystems, a view of the history of extinctions and destruction as a result of development in surrounding areas, and projections on what can be expected to occur in the Daintree Rainforest if current trends continue unchecked. |
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Easton’s “larger-than-life” stories bring this ancient and endangered rainforest right into the room. Her true life stories entertain, educate and inspire. While living in Australia, kangaroos, birds and bandicoots befriended her as her bare feet shared paths with foot-long centipedes, bird eating spiders, leeches and ticks. She learned to handle and identify some of the world’s deadliest snakes. |
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Robin's speaks passionately about the tenacity of all life, and believes all life to be sacred, whether it’s the flying fox or the salt water crocodile. “True knowledge and understanding are potent keys to overcoming our fear of potentially deadly and often misunderstood life forms.” |
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One of Robin’s most remarkable rainforest experiences was the gift of music. During her last year in the rainforests of Australia, Robin began to dream beautiful music. When she returned to the United States she sat at a piano and played as if she'd played for ten years. Unable to read music, Robin has performed and recorded on both the east and west coasts. She's done production work with musician Les Brown, Jr., and produced and published her own piano solo album, all from her original dream music. In her first year of song writing she placed in the top 10 percent of more than thirty thousand entries in the national Billboard Song Contest. Robin tells the story of her music in her second book. |
Robin's first piano.
Composing "dream music"
by candlelight. |
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Robin's fascinating story has been told on an award-winning NBC News affiliate piece, Paul Harvey News, CNN, KBLA Radio, KSFR and others. She's appeared in magazines and newspapers throughout the U.S.A. and Canada. Robin studied both advanced voice assessment and the Mozart Effect with Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect. |
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Eight days on the San Juan River
- - - with a brave young friend |
When not working on her second book, Robin loves hiking, camping, rafting, canoeing, swimming, photography, gardening and almost anything that gets her into the wild. She also enjoys playing the Native American courting flute, composing piano solos, singing, roller-skating, pottery, glass fusing, digging ditches, skiing, travel, and time spent laughing and sharing with friends. |
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