"Alice Outwater-s infectiously readable Wild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves." -Alan Weisman, author, The World Without Us and Countdown
"A wonderful book. Information rich to say the least, and the indigenous human connections and portrait of the deep connectivity of nature, are both strong elements." -Jim McClintock, author of A Naturalist Goes Fishing
Nature on the brink? Maybe not. With so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made. In a narrative that reaches from Native American tribal practices to public health and commercial hunting, Wild at Heart shows how western attitudes towards nature have changed dramatically in the last five hundred years.
The Chinook gave thanks for King Salmon''s gifts. The Puritans saw Nature as a frightening wilderness, full of "uncooked meat." With the industrial
