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The book convincingly presents the indigenous case for animism—that nature is fully alive at all levels, and that stones are our most ancient and reliable communicators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Last summer, in a peaceful corner of one of England's most ancient forests, birdsong met boom mics.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Olfaction is the most ancient of animal senses, said Catherine Price, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Rot and death would spread through their venerable trunks and crumple their limbs — but their roots and stumps, cradled by the continent’s most ancient mountains, lived on in the sandy, acidic Appalachian soil.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
Creating a stable calendar was a problem for most ancient peoples, because they generally started out with a lunar calendar: the length of a month was the time between successive full moons.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
