Recommended books.
Fiction was never really my thing, which isn’t to say I don’t enjoy reading novels, but I was always a bit suspicious of it. I was more drawn to poetry’s bisecting truths. My husband, who’s written two novels, has tired of narrative in his middle age. He feels like he knows the outcomes all too…
Read MoreI asked Carolyn Summers, a landscape designer and native plant expert, what she thought could be done to address what many botanical gardens are calling “plant blindness” and which I likened to a form of illiteracy. This ignorance about plants is relatively new, she pointed out. Take a look at an old Boy Scout manual,…
Read MoreThe book that has been waiting for me in the wings – ecologists and philosophers could have told me – is David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than Human World. It’s been a classic of the environmental movement for over twenty years but is new to me. Abrams speaks…
Read MoreI recently had the pleasure of interviewing Doug Tallamy for the forthcoming In the Weeds podcast (stay tuned!). His book, Bringing Nature Home, packs a powerful message – that to help insure the survival of the many species on our planet – and, yes, that includes us – we need to rethink our way of…
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