Jarod Anderson

"Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, Jarod K. Anderson found comfort and redemption in these facts and the massive shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. This book tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young man's life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every...

"Green trips on the curb, falls flat into the street, and sees the city bus speeding towards him. And then...blink. He's back on the curb, miraculously still alive. A five-foot-tall crow watches him from atop a nearby sign, somehow unseen by the rushing crowd of morning communters. Desperate for answers and beset by more visions of impossible creatures, Green finds his way to a remote campsite in the Appalachian mountains, where he meets a centuries-old...