Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The book explores the bond between humans and nature, emphasizing the importance of joy and love for the natural world as a means of defense against its destruction. It was described as delighting and galvanizing the listener.
I have rarely discovered a book that so delighted and galvanized me at once.
— Episode: Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Huma...
Episode: Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming
The book explores the bond between humans and nature, emphasizing the importance of joy and love for the natural world as a means of defense against its destruction. It was described as delighting and galvanizing the listener.
I have rarely discovered a book that so delighted and galvanized me at once.
The sudden passionate happiness which the natural world can occasionally trigger in us, he writes, may well be the most serious business of all.
There is a legacy deep within us, a legacy of instinct, a legacy of inherited feelings, which may lie very deep in the tissues. It may lie underneath all the parts of civilization which we are so familiar with on a daily basis, but it has not gone. That we might have left the natural world, most of us, but the natural world has not left us.
the passionate happiness the natural world can trigger in us may be the most serious business of all
the subtitle of your book, The Moss Snowstorm is Nature and Joy
Episode: [Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett
The author explores the reasons behind humanity's capacity to love the natural world and what this might mean in a time when nature is under threat. It weaves together personal anecdotes and broader reflections on our relationship with nature, particularly focusing on the joy derived from it.
I can't tell you how much I love your book and I'm telling everyone about it. It's as marked up as any book I have ever read. Including the Bible.
I feel like right at the beginning of your book, The Moss Snowstorm, Nature and Joy, you, I mean this is a book about our bond with the natural world.
when I was a skinny kid in short pants, butterflies entered my soul.
The sudden passionate happiness which the natural world can occasionally trigger in us may well be the most serious business of all
the natural world is where we first found our metaphors and similes and it is the resting place for our psyches.