“Of all the holes in the human heart, perhaps none is bigger than the space once occupied by our connections to wild things and the rhythms of nature. A Reenchanted World reveals the many ways in which our self-imposed exile from our original network of natural relationships is civilization’s most disorienting misstep. Fortunately for us, James William Gibson gives us a compass back to that very sane, very grounded place. This is a wisely haunting, soulful book.”
—Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean and Voyage of the Turtle
“A fast-paced and highly rewarding account of the struggle to realize a deeper consciousness of the human relationship with nature—before it is too late.”
—James Gustave Speth, author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
“An important history of the reconnection with our animal origins. Gibson’s charting of the slow, rocky road to human awareness of our place in the natural world is well worth reading.”
—Benjamin Kilham, author of Among the Bears: Raising Orphan Cubs in the Wild
“Maybe just in time (and maybe not), we are rediscovering the world that we had buried under a mountain of abstractions—‘economy,’ ‘culture,’ ‘faith.’ Our planet is actually at the heart of all of these, and thank heaven some are reaching back for that vestigial memory.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
