- Book Topics
- Nature
- The Natural World
- Symbiosis in nature
- Symmetry in nature
- coastal life
- horseshoe crabs
- jellyfish
- Eastern Long Island
- East coast
- Voles
- Wasps
- Hornets
- Bees
- Sea gulls
- Eclipses
- Grandmothers
- Grandchildren
- Sycamore trees
- Birch trees
- Covid-19 Pandemic
Eyes In The Soles Of My Feet
When is a weed not a weed? When is a bug not a pest? Science writer Caroline Sutton reveals the secrets of the natural world in this “astonishing” collection of essays.
With this fascinating and eye-opening collection of essays, science writer Caroline Sutton provides an intriguing and unique perspective on our natural world, and reveals secret and intimate connections between plant and animal life that we often overlook or malign, be it the industrious mole tunnelling in our backyards to the ancient horseshoe crab scuttling on our shores. Certain to appeal to readers of science and ecology, as well as those curious to look deeper into the seen and unseen intricacies of nature.
- Book Topics
- Nature
- The Natural World
- Symbiosis in nature
- Symmetry in nature
- coastal life
- horseshoe crabs
- jellyfish
- Eastern Long Island
- East coast
- Voles
- Wasps
- Hornets
- Bees
- Sea gulls
- Eclipses
- Grandmothers
- Grandchildren
- Sycamore trees
- Birch trees
- Covid-19 Pandemic
Reviews and Comments
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A strange and wondrous book brimming with heart. One minute you’re reading an essay on crabs, and the next you’re out among the Nazca geoglyphs. That is because, as Caroline Sutton lyrically shows, everything is connected: the sun’s glare, the moon’s tide, a dying mother, a winsome grandchild, a sycamore, a laurel, a dove. Every page ignites a sense of wonder and makes you treasure our world anew.
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Intricate, personal, often astonishing, and simply quite beautiful throughout, Carolyn Sutton’s word-sculpted narrative deserves to be savored. That’s how delicious this book is.
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Caroline Sutton writes with superb powers of description and empathy for creatures as far-ranging as horseshoe crabs, voles, Greenland sharks, and jellyfish. And those as close to home as the canine family member and that insatiably curious and fiery creature, the human child. I admire her deep respect and desire to learn from them all. She is a welcome voice in drawing us closer to the essential knowledge of the ‘symbiosis of all creatures.
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With lyrical prose, Sutton explores such thought-provoking questions as how best to teach children to see the world, free of adult preconceptions, and what humans would see if they viewed their surroundings through ten eyes distributed over their bodies like horseshoe crabs. The result is a revelatory perspective on life on Earth.