Why am I passionate about this?
I write well-researched literary fiction with an ecological focus. Before becoming a biomedical editor, I did clinical research for a leading academic medical center in Cleveland, OH. However, it was only by working at a research institution – and becoming a patient there – that I realized how much science overlooks; it’s only one way of knowing about something. Another way is by building relationships – including with non-human beings. It’s not just people who are complex. Every living thing exists within an intricate, nuanced ecosystem. This sort of knowing, built over long periods, is what facilitates understanding, compassion, and respect for other beings. These are the qualities I hope to share through my writing.
Emily's book list on to help reconnect with the natural world
Why did Emily love this book?
The Forest Unseen approaches the natural world with both eyes wide open.
It is the book I turn to when I crave a spiritual lift; it helps me shed the mindset of modern conveniences and striving, drawing me out of doors. David George Haskell writes with unparalleled precision, examining what goes on in one small patch of old growth forest over the course of a year. What he observes seems, well, a lot like magic.
Reading this book, I can’t help but be amazed by life’s abundance, its strangeness, and its never-ending cycles that are blessedly disinterested in the goings on of humans. The Forest Unseen is both a breath of fresh air and a meditation.
3 authors picked The Forest Unseen as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Look out for David Haskell's new book, The Songs of Tree: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors, coming in April of 2017
In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.
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