Crow Planet By Lyanda Lynn Haupt Essay

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Natural World I have for some time been exploring and reflecting on what urban naturalism might look like. Thus, I was very excited to read Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s book Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, in which she ponders what it might be like to be a naturalist in the city. Haupt has chosen the crow whose presence in almost any environment, even ones that have been highly humanized, to write this book. The focus of the book is mainly crows, but it is really about so much more. It makes the readers notice the simple and unknown urban wildlife that can be found essentially everywhere in the city, and the wildlife is living with humans. Crow Planet makes us notice that we are part of nature and live with nature. The book is an essential book, especially for those of us living with humanity and all forms of life in urban places. Haupt's wisdom and passion gracefully carries the readers through the text. Her vision for the integrity of a holistic life is inspiring and I undoubtedly will return to this book time and again. Other readers would do well to do likewise, especially if they live in the city or the suburbs. Over the course of the book, Haupt names and…show more content…
The practices are naming things, understanding the importance of patience, respecting the wildness of animals, cultivating a specific obsession, carrying a notebook, being wary of gadgetry, maintaining a “field trip” mentality, making time for solitude and standing in a lineage of naturalists. If we as humans do all of those, we would understand the nature around us completely. Although it is unrealistic because all humans cannot always consider the nature like naturalists, we would accept Crow Planet as the introduction of understanding what is the nature and how the nature concern humans. That is why Crow Planet makes us notice that we are part of the nature and live with nature, and the book is an essential

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