Crow Planet:
Essential Wisdom From the Urban Wilderness
Coming to a bookstore near you July 27, 2009
Advance Praise:
“Haupt captures crows wonderfully in elegant prose and weaves a thoughtful tale that connects them… to our growing awareness of our kinship to, and dependence on, the rest of life.”
-Bernd Heinrich, author of Mind of the Raven
“If you picture Henry David Thoreau as a young mother and scientist in suburban Seattle, you can begin to imagine the literate elegance of Crow Planet. Lyanda Haupt has spun the natural life of neighborhoods, and most poignantly the surpassing intelligence of crows, into the kind of gold only the most gifted writer and naturalist could fashion. Crow Planet is a small treasure, a conversion experience of truth, wit, and re-enchantment that remakes the world and our place within it.”
-Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest and Natural Capitalism
“The fiction (sometimes the hope!) that you can escape from nature by living in the city is as sad as it is widespread. This book will remind you to open your eyes to the mundane–it will make the city a far richer place for you.”
-Bill McKibben, author of The Bill McKibben Reader
“Lyanda Haupt observes crows with a naturalist’s eye and discovers that they are smart, social, and disturbingly like us… Your strolls around your neighborhood will be much more interesting after you read this book.”
-Denis Hayes, national coordinator for the first Earth Day and President and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation
“Crow Planet gently confronts us with the desperate need for mindfulness as we go about our daily lives in the urban wilderness so that evolution may continue and we may stem the loss of our humanity.”
-Maggie Ross, author of The Fire of Your Life: A Solitude Shared
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