This has become my favorite academic (i.e. intellectually weighty) book that could be loosely placed in the growing genre of ecopsychology. On the strength of this text, I invited David to give one of the key-note lectures at a recent meeting at Harvard University on the theoretcial aspects of human-nature relationships in relation to restoration ecology (a subject he touches upon in his book). For these reasons, the publisher, Green Frigate Books, used Kidner to write a very complimentary blurb for my recently published book "Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagement with Water"