Richard Louv

In his newest book Richard Louv explores the powerful and mysterious bond between humans and other animals, including both domestic and wild animals. He makes the case that deepening our connection with other animals, both wild and domestic, can improve our mental, physical and spiritual lives; serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness; and is essential to the preservation of life on Earth. We love our pets. We say we love nature. We talk about the threat to other life in an almost technical way, about endangered species, disappearing habitat, but we seldom consider what may be the greatest potential loss, at least to us: the mysterious bond we share with other animals – that most fragile connection that has no name, the whisper we may not miss until it is too late, that essence that may yet save us – and them.