Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit Audiobook

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• “Radiant with reverence, sparkling with surprises, and brimming with insight, Rooted is a lyrical and intimate handbook on how to live a mindful, joyful, fruitful life in harmony with our sweet green earth."

  — Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author

• “A personal series of short meditations, very intimate.”

  — New York Times

• “It is a celebration of interconnectedness and belonging, a wild sacrament, a love song to life.”

  — Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair

• A masterful melding of the mystical and the material. A great read.

  — Bernd Heinrich, author of White Feathers and Racing the Clock

• Rooted is luminous and living proof of its own central premise: that all things are connected, and that activism and creativity can be a powerful combination. Part philosophical and personal exploration, part environmental manifesto, written with a gloriously poetic sensibility, Rooted feels like a literary love child of Rachel Carson and Mary Oliver. Find yourself a quiet place, preferably under a tree, and let Lyanda Lynn Haupt teach you how to embrace the “tangled empathy” of living not as a dominant species, but as one of many.

  — Erica Bauermeister, New York Times bestselling author of The Scent Keeper and House Lessons

• An extraordinary guide to wonder and belonging. Shattering dualities—science/spirit, dark/light, human/nature—Haupt leads us into the delicious presence of the living Earth. In a time of isolation and fragmentation, her many insights are beautiful and much-needed invitations to wholeness and connection.

  — David Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen and The Songs of Trees

• Bold, lucid, lyrical, wise. In Rooted, Lyanda Lynn Haupt re-imagines and rediscovers connectedness, exploring our relationships to nature through the rhythms of daily life. A timely, and though-provoking read.

  — Thor Hanson, author of Buzz and The Triumph of Seeds

• An elegant tapestry of poetry and science, of personal narrative and communal prophesy, this beautifully written book is drenched in wonder.  It is a celebration of interconnectedness and belonging, a wild sacrament, a love song to life.”  —Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy

• Radiant with reverence, sparkling with surprises, and brimming with insight, Rooted is a lyrical and intimate handbook on how to live a mindful, joyful, fruitful life in harmony with our sweet green earth."  —Sy Montgomery, author of How to Be a Good Creature

• With her deep intuition and expansive attention as our guides, Lyanda Haupt’s gorgeous words create a path to the place where science and spirit meet. It’s a barefoot path that wanders through solitudes and into community with frogs, moose, orca, and our own wildness.

  — Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

• From barefooted forest walks to the curiosities of what becomes of us when we die, Rooted challenges readers to reconsider their relationships to the natural world. Part-manifesto, part-love note, this exploration of wild connections inspires and delights.

  — Caroline Van Hemert, author of The Sun is a Compass

• Exquisite, deceptively simple, lustrous with enigma and pulsing with ache, practical, humble, and honest: Rooted nourishes the wild earth struggling to breathe within us and all around us.

  — David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology