Passionate ... Thrilling ... His plea for us all to adopt an ecological world view, one underpinned by the insights of symbiosis, is deeply rooted in his earlier career as a scientist, but Rowan’s many journalistic titbits...make it really fun.
Eye-opening ... Ambitious ... It sounds like a lovely idea, all these species banding together and lending each other a helping hand. But it’s not quite as warm and fuzzy as all that.
Not an attempt to make evolution cuddlier and more palatable; rather, it is a corrective deeply informed by what we have learned since Darwin about how nature works. Written with immense charm and passion, and packed with eye-popping facts, it is also a paean to the wonders of nature and the value and urgency of preserving them.
