"Do Not Call the Tortoise" is a collection of essays about ignorance, Coleridge, Darwin, cats and, rather daringly, the meaning of life. All these are viewed from a fresh perspective which attempts to see the world without our cultural preconceptions. It champions immediacy and our own experience rather than theories and media information.
 
‘Stunning – full of revelatory beauty’                               (Katherine May)
 
 ‘A shrine to thoughtfulness and the rich, neglected virtues of reflection.’            (Adam Nicolson)     
 
‘Wonderful, funny and profound’                        (Jay Griffiths)
 
'Here is the wisdom of the hedgerow and the mountain; the power of entanglement; the electricity of encounter. Marvellous and marvellously important.'                                                (Charles Foster)
 
Every bush is a burning bush, aflame with the motive and creative power of the world. And as I stare at this rose in my garden I see both the rose and the universe-in-the-rose, because a rose cannot exist in isolation: all life is interconnected, sprung from the same source, that single cell in which all life on earth began. 
from the essay Burning Bushes
 
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