Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

by Douglas W. Tallamy

The predictions of mass extinction are based on the assumption that the vast majority of plants and animals cannot coexist with humans in the same place at the same time. Nonsense!

Our impact on every square mile of the earth’s biosphere, that thin zone on the planet’s surface in which the conditions for life are ideal, has been so great that we must give up the old notion of preserving nature in its pristine form. That, however, does not mean that we must give up on nature altogether.

Concepts of wilderness are modern and colonial in any case, erasing eons of stewardship by people and the role of Indigenous people in knowing and caring for a place in relationship with its network of beings.

“reconciliation ecology.”