The Overstory by Richard Powers
A few weeks ago I walked my typical morning route but this time I felt the trees. They weren’t speaking to me but living inside me. I felt each of the hundreds I probably pass every morning grabbing from inside my body and making me…
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Novels about exotic climes written by white people were at best attempts to make us feel like we were bringing our superior civilization and abundant good will to bear on some poor backward people. There was usually a laconic, hard-drinking, antisocial Bogie type who helped…
Entangled Life; How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
I had listened to a podcast featuring Suzanne Simard and her research findings that trees communicate to each other about their needs through fungi. I was about to purchase her new book when I saw ‘Entangled Web’ and impulsively purchased this one instead. What a…
Superfly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects by Jonathan Balcombe
This is the year I read about nature. Seems about time since nature maybe plotting a well deserved demise of our species. Mr. Balcombe is an engaging writer who doesn’t quite do for flies what Merlin Sheldrake did for fungi but comes close. He starts…
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