Title: Not what I expected: better
Product review: I expect books by philosophers to be made up of closely reasoned logical arguments, not poetic descriptions of deeply felt personal encounters with nature. I find I much prefer the latter! Not that there isn't some philosophizing going on, but the power of the arguments derive from the poetry and the emotions. This is incandescent writing, and I wanted to share practically every paragraph with my friends - and in fact there will be several Christmas stockings stuffed with this little book this year. My only disappointment is that, although she makes a case for an emotional connection to place being as important as our attachment to family, she doesn't seem to come up with a prescription for making that connection more universal in our sadly disconnected world. Unless it's simply sharing our love of nature directly with as many people as possible. I suppose that's a start.
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