“The love of place can sustain a life, and we usually talk as though it’s an unreciprocated love, a one-way street. These essays show why that is wrong. The places love us back in how they steady and sustain us, teach us, shelter us, guide us, feed us, and that old image of the Earth itself as a mother is a reminder that we depend upon the unearned bounty of the biosphere. So, in a sense, in learning to love the Earth and particular places in it, we are learning to love back what loved us all along. Learning to love these places, by studying and understanding them, was one of Barry’s lifelong tasks”. Rebecca Solnit, on Barry Lopez’s incredible book “Embrace Fearlessly this Burning World” 💚