"'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response
to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity," Rachel Carson wrote in
reflecting on our spiritual bond with nature shortly before she awakened the
modern environmental conscience. The rewards and redemptions of that elemental
yet endangered response is what British naturalist and environmental writer
Michael McCarthy, a modern-day Carson, explores in The Moth Snowstorm: Nature
and Joy (public library) -- part memoir and part manifesto, a work of philosophy
rooted in environmental science and buoyed by a soaring poetic
imagination."
Maria Popova shares more about McCarthy's book and its timely messages here.
