Hoagland On Nature: Essays

Hoagland on Nature: Essays

From BooklistThere is so much life percolating in each viny sentence and riverine paragraph of Hoagland's essays, so much keen sensual awareness and expansive thought, the reader feels infused with energy. In her fittingly vibrant foreword to this precious collection of 50 galvanizing essays written over 35 years of intense observation, dedicated exploration, and open-hearted inquiry, Gretel Ehrlich writes that each of Hoagland's masterful essays is "an ardent love letter to life," and, indeed, these generous and probing musings are personal and confiding, grounded in an abiding belief in the medium (Hoagland loves language as much as he loves wilderness) and in the bedrock message: life is endlessly fascinating whether lived on the streets of New York, the mountains of New England, the coast of Antarctica, or the Okefenokee Swamp. Hoagland writes with knowledge and astounding empathy about turtles, bears, mountain lions, penguins, tigers, and elephants and profiles people with respectful affection even as he fumes over our careless and destructive ways. A powerful writer with an invaluable perspective, Hoagland belongs in every American literature collection. Donna SeamanCopyright