Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of
science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening
of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to
what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as
precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in
the natural world. As in Hurd's other books, the previously unknown
or the barely known becomeless mysterious but still retain the
quality of mystery. The book presumes that nature is a mix of the
chaotic and the wondrous. It addresses worry and advocacy-worry
about our carelessness that can destroy the balance of that mix and
a cry for us to pay more attention to humanity's relationship to
natural history. Listen, be alert, it says without hectoring.
Rivers, ferns, streams, birds all have a life that is delicate and
worth preserving. Barbara Hurd is one of our finest environmental
writers, and this book will please the choir and persuade those on
the ambivalent edge.
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