Rooted : life at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit / Lyanda Lynn Haupt ; illustrations by Helen Nicholson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227).

Frog church: a rooted invocation -- Listen: the wild summons of the wolf path -- Shed: bare feet, holy ground -- Wander: a feral cartography -- Immerse: staying dirty during a forest bath -- Alone: the essential complexity of solitude -- Unseen: return to a fruitful darkness -- Relate: an infinity of animal intelligences -- Speak: the abracadabra of earth -- Grow: trees and the rings of belonging -- Create: the art of earth activism -- Spiral: a wild returns.

"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." --book jacket.