Heart and Blood

By Richard Nelson,

Book cover of Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America

Book description

"When it comes to deer, wildness is the greatest truth. And tameness is a tender, innocent lie."  So writes Richard Nelson, award-winning author of The Island Within, in this far-ranging and deeply personal look at our complex relationship with this most beautiful, but amazingly elusive, creature.Heart and Blood: Living with…

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1 author picked Heart and Blood as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

"Deer: The Book" as I often refer to it. Part natural history, part sneaky wildlife economics, all full of awe and wonder for this one animal that is maligned, worshiped, and ignored by so many Americans.

What does it have to do with conservation? If you can laser focus on one species and see the complicated web it lives in, then you can begin to extrapolate that to other species and see what a tricky business true conservation becomes.

Conservation isn’t a national park, and environmentally friendly food isn’t a frozen soybean patty from a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.  

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