The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
"Very much a contemporary biologist in his familiarity with genetics and  population ecology, he also has the voracious synthetic imagination of a  19th-century naturalist. ...a sensitive writer, conjuring with careful precision the worlds he observes and delighting the reader with insightful turns of phrase."The Wall Street Journal."...as beautiful a book as I've read in years...I can't remember the last time I encountered so much spiritual wisdom, ecological intelligence and  contagious love for the grandeur of life..."Chattanooga Times Free Press."Brimming with sensual details, when Haskell's modest patch of turf removes its glasses, it's as sexy as Marian the Librarian."Atlanta Journal and Constitution."An extraordinary, intimate view of life... Exceptional observations of the biological world..."Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review for "books of remarkable merit.""Mixing poetry with natural history, he follows subtle scientific threads...to conclusions of gratifying breadth."Conservation Magazine."Haskell leads the reader into a new genre of nature writing, located between science and poetry, in which the invisible appear, the small grow large, and the immense complexity and beauty of life are more clearly revealed."(E. O. Wilson, Harvard University )"David Haskell trains his eye on a single square meter of Cumberland Plateau, and manages in the process to see the whole living planet as clearly as any writer in many years. Each chapter will teach you something new!"(Bill McKibben, authorEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet)"In the style of Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Thoreau, David Haskell has capture the beauty and intricacy of evolution in these pages. For those who are looking for inspiration to spend more time in the wild, this book is the perfect companion. Haskell's vast knowledge of the forest and all its creatures is the perfect guide to exploring wilderness. The prose is a perfect match for the poetic tranquillity found through the study of nature.  A true naturalist's manifesto."(Greg Graffin, author ofAnarchy Evolution)“…a welcome entry in the world of nature writers. He thinks like a biologist, writes like a poet, and gives the natural world the kind of open-minded attention one expects from a Zen monk rather than a hypothesis-driven scientist.” The New York Times