By Ben Kessler
“Ben Kessler is that rarest and most beneficial of writers, one whose each observe is shaped and educated by way of a profound love of the flora and fauna, one whose loyalty is undeniably with the area that's our and everybody else’s in basic terms domestic. And he’s a hell of a author. Please learn this booklet, after which positioned the ebook away and move outdoors, transformed.”
— Derrick Jensen, writer of "The fantasy of Human Supremacy"
“‘The whole historical earth thinks prodigiously / and the murmur of its nice bushes grows.’ Rilke’s strains saved nudging me as I pored over this manuscript. by the point I reached the top, I had the eerie experience that Kessler, a getting better biologist, used to be someway channeling Thoreau (‘Shall I no longer have intelligence with the earth?’), Loren Eiseley (‘I used to be water and the unspeakable alchemies that gestate and take form in water.’) and the towering, outstanding indignation of Edward Abbey. I don’t regularly carry with resurrections, yet I’m making an exception with Ben Kessler. Abbey is back.”
—Calvin Luther Martin, writer of "The manner of the Human Being"
BEN KESSLER is or was once a schoolteacher, box biologist, gardener, activist, painter, and nurseryman. He lives in a bit hole within the Blue Ridge Mountains of crucial Virginia.
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