Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home

"Belonging is a beautiful book and also a creatively rich one. Thomson uses language as an evocation of place, and an invocation of something beyond the veil—a naming and calling down into being, if you will. It is a conjuring of place through language and landscape, revealing the connections and fragmentations it holds as it explores what it means to belong in and of a place, and the creative relationship we have with the natural landscape as artists. It is a thinking book, but it is also a meditative book of space and silence and the delicacy of feathers that asks us to be still and quiet and observant, even as the world around rushes by. As Thomson says, ‘this is what belonging is really about. It is about noticing and caring, and taking stock’."