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The Lost Spells: A Lyrical Rewilding of the Human Heart
"A century after the great nature writer Henry Beston insisted that we need "a
wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals," observing how "in a world
older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with
extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we
shall never hear," Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild
things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness."
