I'm thankful for a book that reminds us ... what poetry can do to open things out for us. I suggest you buy it. Poetry Review "Her book is a gem - Written simply, and with feeling, these poems suit the quotes well in most cases." ECOS & Landscape & Arts Network 'Reviews' I am struck both by the beauty of this book and its relevance in pointing toward the essential role of poetry in shaping a saner twenty-first-century culture of science. The subject matter of Alfred Russel Wallace's life and work, so thoroughly and strikingly taken up by Anne Cluysenaar in a condensed form that can only be described as ecopoetry, perfectly complements that imaginative project.A" Temenos Academy Review 12