These vivid, original, inventive essays took me by surprise at every turn and led me to think about even ordinary creatures in new ways. Bridget Lyons is a wonderful writer, a maverick, and a free thinker, and I enjoyed her company on every page of this fascinating book.
- Sy Montgomery, Author of Secrets of the Octopus
We were lucky enough to be born onto a planet with so many nifty neighbors. I've held hands with an octopus, I've hugged a bunch of trees, I've talked back and forth with owls in the night—this lovely and deep book brought back those memories and sent me outdoors in search of more!
- Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
“This lovely book, so full of empathy and longing, delivers on its title. In this journey that is part travelogue, part memoir, and mostly about a natural world that deserves more respect, Bridget Lyons shows us, gently, how we are all, indeed, Entwined."
- Carl Safina, author of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
Bridget Lyons is an animal on the move, a curious creature with itchy feet and a passion for the wild. Her travels are filled with adventure, inspiration, and fun, but also confusion, sadness, and rigorous self-questioning: How am I to live as an integral part of a broader community of species? How am I to live on and with this awesome earth? These essays don't offer easy answers. They offer a place in which to search.
What scientists are finally beginning to discover, Lyons intuitively knows. Other species are as magnificent as humans, intelligent in their own ways, and worth paying keen attention to. Lyons’ observations and insights are as embodied as they are delightful. Kelp, butterflies, owl, elk, octopuses—myriad animals and plants—shine as Lyons recognizes each of their individual, awe-inspiring lights. Through her own sensory engagement and embracing vision, in Entwined, we experience how we, everything, are all connected.
- Nicole Walker, author of Sustainability: A Love Story
Entwined is an elegant weaving of the author’s lifetime love of her nonhuman neighbors—sea kelp, monarchs, humpbacks, octopuses, fireweed, ibex, owls, and elks, to name a few—with absorbing scientific facts, historical context, and the lived-experience of an accomplished outdoorswoman. Filled with insight, humility, and humor, Entwined asks all the right questions about where we humans belong while generously allowing readers to find their own answers.
- Leigh Marz, co-author of Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise
From the seafloor off the coast of Honduras where ancient sea sponges filter the waters of coral reefs to the melting sea ice on the islands of northernmost Alaska where she helps research the endangered habitat of eider ducks, the forever intrepid Bridget Lyons models for readers a different way of engaging meaningfully with the many beings of the life world. No adventure is too odd or too arduous for Lyons as she shows how we can learn—and grow in ourselves—as we make contact with the creatures of our huge, beautiful, and threatened world. Entangled manages to pull off that most difficult of jobs: to be informative and true to the science, and yet simultaneously touch on the great mystery of the life that is all around us.
- Andy Couturier, author of The Abundance of Less
Writing and thinking as clear as the freshest stream, the brightest sunrise.
—Charles Hood, author of A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat
