Delighted and delightful, citizens welcome their lives in the biosphere. This book of current nature literature and natural value judgements is your ticket to place and planet.
Lynn Margulis, Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
This book opens up the doors of ecological perception with a unique integration of scientific knowledge, creative imagery, and compassionate insight. Mitchell Tomashow gives us the lenses to see what is essential for our collective future—the intrinsic connection between the local and the global. We are all in his debt.
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Department of Religion, Bucknell University, and Coordinator, Forum on Religion and Ecology
It's all about connections, and Mitchell Tomashow shows us how to connect the global and local, both intellectually and practically. Bringing the Biosphere Home is a must reading for people wanting to build a coherent world that honors place and planet.
David Orr, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
Thomashow's book provides value judgments about nature, based on nature. And one emerges from reading with a profound sense of one's place in the biosphere.
Lynn Margulis, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and recipient of the National Medal of Science
Bringing the Biosphere Home is eloquent, passionate, richly allusive, and original.
John C. Elder, Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College, Author of Reading the Mountains of Home
It is a good choice for those seeking to hone their ability to observe and understand nature at any scale.
Richard A. Matthew, Environment
This exceedingly engaging and readable book effectively weaves personal narrative and commentary on scientific and literary works.
W. Weston, Choice
This is a book full of practical and far-reaching wisdom, a book at once learned and lively.
Scott Slovic, Orion
Mitchell Thomashow knows that we can only take care of the planet by taking care of our home places, so he teaches us how to become fully awake to nature nearby. It would be illuminating to stroll with him around one's own neighborhood, learning to read global patterns in the local landscape. Since he can't be everywhere in person, we're fortunate to have this sturdy, generous book.
Scott Russell Sanders, Author of Hunting for Hope and The Force of Spirit
Mitchell Thomashow has produced a brilliantly reasoned, charming, handsomely written book with grace and uncommon understanding. It's a guide to survival from spring peepers to wintering Monarch butterflies to us. Required reading—the perfect primer for those concerned with the future of the natural world.
Ann H. Zwinger, Author of Run, River, Run and The Nearsighted Naturalist
Bringing the Biosphere Home shows how scientific analysis and personal experience can intertwine. Thomashow's meditations on place, community, and the biosphere engage both analysis and contemplation, dissolving the false dichotomy between the local and the global.
Tom Dietz, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy and Sociology, George Mason University
