Praise for Footprints : "As we hurtle into the Anthropocene, blindly at the helm of this inconstant planet, Farrier gives us our bearings within the landscape of deep time. Eons buckle under his pen: the world before us made vivid; the paradox of our permanence and impermanence visceral. Stunning" GAIA VINCE "Darkly, exquisitely, oh-so-carefully, David Farrier lays out the future we can see from here: the ice singing its own dissolution, the plastic without a memory that will last for eternity, the deepest ocean and the highest air which will remember our carbon traces in millions of years to come. Farrier is an exacting dissector of human culture and natural history; his book is a brilliant and surprising beautiful requiem for what we have lost, but also, crucially, what we might save from the wreckage" PHILIP HOARE "A signal book, and a profoundly significant one, of warnings and prophecies, of explorations and discoveries. With wry, persuasive intelligence it surveys the landscapes and cityscapes, the art and the literature, of this pivotal moment in the Anthropocene" GAVIN FRANCIS " Footprints by David Farrier has changed the way I navigate the world" KATIE PATERSON "A haunting study of the fossils that twenty-first-century life will leave behind" Times Literary Supplement "A brilliant, unsettling book; a deep-time delving into our future fossils - an examination of what humans have inherited, and what we might leave as our long-term legacies upon - within - the Earth. Subtly thought and beautifully written" ROBERT MACFARLANE "Farrier's prose glitters. His journey takes in marvels" Economist "An oddly hopeful exploration of deep time and a world doing just fine without us" New Scientist "Fascinating peek into the deep future! Our distant ancestors left beautiful stone objects. What will we leave? Surprising answers!" MARGARET ATWOOD, Twitter.