"Falling in love with the world around us--a world from which we're too often abstracted and distant--may be the first crucial step toward saving some of that creation. The essays in this book, from some of the wisest and most eloquent voices on the planet, should summon us to this vital work." --Bill McKibben, editor of American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau "This richly reflective book alerts us that conserving nature's diversity will take more than political will and conventional pieties. It will take some sharper thinking. We can't honor or save the 'heart' of the 'wild' until we better understand, and agree more broadly upon, what those two words might mean." --David Quammen, author of The Song of the Dodo and Breathless " The Heart of the Wild is a wonderful collection--a rich conversation that challenges orthodoxies, makes unexpected connections, and reminds us of the value of even the humblest forms of life." --Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts "In the enduring words of Aldo Leopold, the ecologist lives alone in a world of wounds--but The Heart of the Wild makes for awfully good company. The eclectic essays in this collection probe and challenge conservation's deepest-held beliefs, lament all our planet has lost, and outline provocative visions for a future in which nature persists, albeit in a much-changed form.

By turns heartbreaking and inspiring, this book finds wildness in the Anthropocene's rubble, and alleviates our loneliness along the way." --Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings and Eager "This star-studded compendium of writing by some of the world's leading thinkers and researchers belongs in every nature lover's library. These essays will thrill and challenge and maybe even upset you--but there is no way you will come away from this book unmoved." --Sy Montgomery, author of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell.