Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

ROOTED

Lynda Lynn Haupt

Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

A beautifully written manifesto for our complex time, Rooted inspires readers to deepen their connection with nature in unexpected ways, and to act powerfully on the earth's behalf.

Science. Nature. Spirit. They do not, need not, and should not overlap completely. But at that center, where they do intersect? At that crossroads there is intelligence, and sacredness, and wildness, and grace. There is clear-sighted hope in a time of despair. There is resistance. There is joy.

In this beautiful, thoughtful, and inspiring book, ecophilosopher, naturalist, and award-winning author Lyanda Lynn Haupt offers serious invitation to ecological consciousness and action - a swift and beautiful manual inspiring readers to stand in a new way for the natural world. With Haupt's own changing and growing perceptions as a life-long student of nature as a through-line, ROOTED offers an antidote to the plagues of modern life based in science, spirituality, and nature.

In this mystifying time of climate upheaval that affects the earth so dramatically, people are afraid and uncertain of where to turn, where to direct their inborn love of nature. ROOTED delivers much-needed solace while inspiring readers to engage with the wild earth in new ways. The intertwining of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to get grounded and move forward on our beloved, imperiled world.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an ecophilosopher, naturalist, and author of several books, including Mozart's Starling, The Urban Bestiary, Crow Planet, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent, and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds. A winner of the Washington State Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, she lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.

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Book Published 2021-05-04 by Little Brown / Spark

Comments

Thailand: Suan Nguen Mee

Exquisite, deceptively simple, lustrous with enigma and pulsing with ache, practical, humble, and honest: Rooted nourishes the wild earth struggling to breathe within us and all around us.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is a nature mystic, which is to say a now rare but entirely normal human who never lost touch with her innate rootedness in the greater web of life. An enchanting and lyrical writer, she celebrates in graceful prose her viscerally experienced kinship with frogs and forests, whales and wind, snakes and starlings. In ROOTED, she swings open the gateway hidden in plain sight, the wild portal that beckons us onto the braided barefoot pathway where we might learn again 'how to live on our broken, imperiled, beloved earth' - if we dare to wander into that magic. There's nothing more urgent and there's no one more gifted at conjuring and illuminating the trail.

A masterful melding of the mystical and the material. A great read.

Shattering dualities - science/spirit, dark/light, human/nature - Haupt leads us into the delicious presence of the living Earth.

From barefooted forest walks to the curiosities of what becomes of us when we die, ROOTED challenges readers to reconsider their relationships to the natural world. Part-manifesto, part-love note, this exploration of wild connections inspires and delights.

An elegant tapestry of poetry and science, of personal narrative and communal prophesy, this beautifully written book is drenched in wonder. It is a celebration of interconnectedness and belonging, a wild sacrament, a love song to life.

Bold, lucid, lyrical, wise. In Rooted, Lyanda Lynn Haupt re-imagines and rediscovers connectedness, exploring our relationships to nature through the rhythms of daily life. A timely, and though-provoking read.

With her deep intuition and expansive attention as our guides, Lyanda Haupt's gorgeous words create a path to the place where science and spirit meet. It's a barefoot path that wanders through solitudes and into community with frogs, moose, orca, and our own wildness.

Radiant with reverence, sparkling with surprises, and brimming with insight, ROOTED is a lyrical and intimate handbook on how to live a mindful, joyful, fruitful life in harmony with our sweet green earth.

Part philosophical and personal exploration, part environmental manifesto, written with a gloriously poetic sensibility, Rooted feels like a literary love child of Rachel Carson and Mary Oliver.