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"Breaking the modern impulse to see humans as separate from nature, the authors encourage readers to learn from the "supremely methodical and highly improvisational" natural systems that touch people's lives. True change, they argue, begins with stopping and questioning assumptions about humans' place in the world. From this process of reflection, they offer an alternative blueprint for acting in ecologically healthy ways, and for inspiring others...
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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"An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a...
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