How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You’ve Never Noticed

The short, gentle one in Gooley’s run of “how to nature” books — an introduction rather than a manual, aimed at getting the senses back open. Fifteen short exercises, most taking a few minutes: Listen for the shape of a landscape in its sounds, notice where the insects are, look at what the sky is doing at the horizon rather than overhead, walk a stretch barefoot, sit still. He argues the outdoors is being consumed as scenery when it should be a relationship, and that the equipment for joining in is your five simple senses.