Description: The internationally bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods seeks a deeper personal connection to nature during this time of ecoanxiety and upheaval by exploring his own backyard.
Long beloved for his insightful, inspiring nature writing, Richard Louv returns with his most personal book yet. Noticing is about discovering who you are by exploring the natural world. Louv shows how, by tapping into the thirty or more human senses we have, readers can develop skills--sensory, scientific, artistic, and spiritual--to see and experience the otherworlds of nature. Through personal essays, rich with descriptions of the California wilderness around his home in the most biodiverse county in the nation, Louv draws on wisdom from influences as far-reaching as neuroscience, nature photography, Indigenous traditions, and mindfulness to foster what he calls "bioenchantment." He offers a new, deeper understanding of what it means to see a tree, know a fox, and to become fully human.Review Quotes: "Richard Louv's Noticing isn't nature writing as usual, it's an invitation to meet the more-than-human world through all the senses. Drawing on research, mindfulness practices, Indigenous wisdom, and intimate encounters in the biodiverse California wilderness, Louv shows us that there's far more to the outdoors than what meets the eye. The result is a beautiful ode to wonder--and a reminder that our capacity for enchantment is a skill we can relearn."
--Linda Åkeson McGurk, author of The Open-Air Life and There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather