Due to COVID-19, this will be a virtual event.
Join author Lyanda Lynn Haupt on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 7:00PM PT to celebrate the release of her forthcoming book Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit. Lynda will be joined in conversation by her friend and colleague Lynda Mapes. No purchase is necessary to attend, but you can order a copy of the book below.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world.
In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth?
Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways—from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life.
In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.
ABOUT LYANDA LYNN HAUPT
Lyanda Lynn Haupt is a naturalist, ecophilosopher, and author of Mozart’s Starling, The Urban Bestiary, Crow Planet, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent, and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds. A winner of the Washington State Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, she lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.
ABOUT LYNDA MAPES
Lynda V. Mapes is a staff reporter at the Seattle Times where she specializes in covering the environment and indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of six books, including Orca: Shared Waters Shared Home, published June 1, 2021 by Braided River and the Seattle Times. An associate of the Harvard Forest, she was a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism in 2013-2014 and Bullard Fellow in Forest Research at Harvard University’s Harvard Forest in 2014-2015. She is a two-time winner of the international Kavli Gold Award in Science Journalism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She lives in Seattle.
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer).
In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected.