Praise for Natural Connection

  • "Urgent, profound and compassionate... Natural Connection brings us to imagine our relations with nature otherwise. Wisely, patiently, it opens and holds space in which radically rooted change might flourish."

    — Robert Macfarlane

  • "A truly original journey to the root of our collective problems that offers new hope for how to solve them. Reading it is a balm."

    — Afua Hirsch

  • "This book is not just a call to observe, it’s a call to reconnect, reimagine and cocreate the future we long for. Read it, sit with it and let it change how you see your place in the world."

    — Leah Thomas

  • "What a nifty book. It points some paths forward, and they’re not the usual ones; the author understands that ‘connection’—between people, and between people and the world—may turn out to be the most important word in the human lexicon."

    — Bill McKibben

  • "With powerful storytelling and a soaring vision, Natural Connection reclaims environmentalism as sacred, collective work. More than a book, it is a movement manual, a healing offering and a vital reminder that, together, we can root a future where all life thrives."

    — Ruha Benjamin

Natural Connection is out now

Reimagining environmentalism as an act of doing and a way of being in the world and climate action as a shared goal, not an individual burden, Natural Connection draws on the legacies and ongoing resistance of marginalised communities around the globe to guide us toward a more sustainable relationship with the living world.

In the book, Joycelyn defines six conceptual roots—rage, imagination, innovation, theory, healing and care—that can help us to transform environmentalism from the ground up.

Rooted in the profound knowledge that we only have each other and the earth itself, Natural Connection cultivates hope in growing a better future together.

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