Rooted

Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit.

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IN ROOTED, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imper-iled, beloved earth?

Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt's highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways-from walking barefoot in the woods to reimagining our relationships with animals and trees. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness - and wildness - that sustains humans and all of life.

Each chapter provides tools forbringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the natural world. In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit, we find true hope.

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LYANDA LYNN HAUPT is a naturalist, an ecophilosopher, and the author of Mozart's Starling, The Urban Bestiary, Crow Planet, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent, and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds. She is a winner of the Washington State Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award.