Date/Time
May 26, 2022
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Enjoy reading books with a nature/environmentalism theme? Join NC’s monthly book club!

May is Here!

May brings spring peepers, sprouting seeds, and maybe a new book? We meet on the 4th Thursday of the month via zoom (registration required to receive the link). We welcome people of all backgrounds and abilities to join. Whether or not you’ve read this book, please feel free to come and participate in the discussion!

*Registration is required. Click here to register.

Participants can expect discussion around the book, intellectually stimulating conversation, and a shared passion for all things nature. Our May book will be Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.

Book Description:

        Cover for “Rooted” by Lyanda              Lynn Haupt

In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth?

Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways—from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life.

In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.

This is a free group. Please email us at [email protected] if you need assistance or accommodations with the subject line: Book Club.