Free online lecture with Lyanda Lynn Haupt

This event occurred live on Thursday, April 22, 2021.
Please click the link below to view the recording:
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

This Zoom webinar included a live presentation followed by a Q & A.

Members and friends of the Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society were afforded a sneak preview of Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s latest book. Rooted inspires readers to deepen their connection with nature. The following is taken from the publisher’s description of the book, to be published May 4, 2021. In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and affect this whole in return.

In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth? Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways—from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life. In 2019 Lyanda treated our audiences to a lecture on her book, Mozart’s Starling, a weaving of her knowledge of music, the natural sciences and history.

Lyanda Lynne Haupt is an award-winning author, naturalist, ecophilosopher, and speaker whose writing is at the forefront of the movement to connect people with nature in their everyday lives. She holds a master’s degree in environmental ethics and philosophy. Her newest book is Rooted. Lyanda’s other books include: Mozart’s Starling; The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild; among others. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.