Crow Planet : Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

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“Most of us in urban and suburban places live, however unwittingly, in a multilayered zoöpolis.” In a lopsided, human-dominated world, crows flourish alongside us when other species are reduced by our proximity. I picked the book up at Powell's when I was in Portland, and when I started reading i...

from ronsea

Good book by an author living in West Seattle. First half was excellent and the send half too preachy.

from DieFledermaus

Crow Planet isn't an earth-shaking book but it is a pleasant and interesting read. I enjoyed the crow anecdotes and the glimpses of Seattle. The author decides to investigate the natural world that can be found in a city and while she looks at other animals and insects, the main focus is crows. T...

from nmele

Perhaps the best book on our relation to everything else on earth I have read since reading "A Sand County Almanac", which Haupt refers to more than once in these reflective essays. I am watching the world out my window, and on my walks, more closely and more contemplatively since reading this book.

from rightantler

There's a lot of great crow insight in this book - especially if you are new to reading books about crows. At times the wander into philosophy, wisdom seemed a little too much of a tangent. However, that was probably because I was more interested in observations and wisdom about crows than I was ...