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The human heart is the most sensitive instrument, and that is why Amy Seidl's marvelous book is so important, a new kind of contribution to the rapidly growing library on global warming.—Bill McKibben, from the foreword
Robert Frost wrote about nature and rural life in New England, and Norman Rockwell painted classic scenes of farmhouses and American traditional life, images reproduced as symbolizing an idealized history born of New England sights. But New England, a region whose culture is rooted in its four distinct seasons, is changing along with its climate.
In Early Spring, ecologist and mother Amy Seidl examines climate change at a personal level through her own family's walks in the woods, work in their garden, and observations of local wildlife in the quintessential America of small-town New England, deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Seidl's testimony, grounded in the science of ecology and evolutionary biology but written with beauty and emotion, helps us realize that a natural upheaval from climate change has already begun: spring flowers blossom before pollinators arrive, ponds no longer freeze, and animals begin migrations at unexpected times. Increasingly, the media report on melting ice caps and drowning polar bears, but Seidl brings the message of global warming much closer to home by considering how climate change has altered her local experience, and the traditions and lifestyles of her neighbors, from syrup producers to apple farmers. In Vermont, she finds residents using nineteenth-century practices to deal with perhaps the most destructive twenty-first-century phenomenon.
Seidl's poignant writing and scientific observations will cause readers to look at their local climate anew, and consider how they and their neighbors have adjusted to the reality of global warming.
- Sales Rank: #2513703 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
- Published on: 2010-03-01
- Released on: 2010-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .50" w x 5.45" l, .56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
In this intimate reflection, Seidl, an ecologist, records her observations of life and ecology in the wooded Vermont hollow where she lives, depicting how human, animal and plant life is changing as the weather becomes warmer and less predictable. At Christmas, people are canoeing rather than skating; daffodils push through the ground in January; outbreaks of tent caterpillars, historically limited by winter deep freezes, stress the sugar bush. An ice-fishing derby is cancelled more times than it is run. They can't depend on the ice... to hold up. Seidl's tender descriptions of her young daughters' encounters with the natural world—skipping rocks, choosing Halloween pumpkins from the garden and gorging on the abundance of cherries picked off the tree—add personal poignancy to a subject few can stand to talk about at any length. Walking the woods with her husband and children on a Sunday morning, Seidl muses on the scale of life itself... its infinite unfolding, and how... present joy is a reflection of deep time, suggesting that, to avoid mass extinction, we evolve a new set of values... consonant with ecocentrism. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
Ecologist Seidl blends a well-researched environmental study with observations of small-town Vermont life, even as she reaches beyond New England by keeping her discussion of global warming artfully broadminded. Thus Mexico can easily figure into a chapter on butterflies and Japan fits nicely into a discussion of her backyard garden. But mostly Seidl remains firmly settled in Vermont, and just as Sue Hubbell so effectively draws readers into the Ozarks, this title recounts the stories of sugar-makers, farmers, and neighbors whose stalwart dedication to maintaining daily weather journals, including significant records of climate data, is reminiscent of the Old Farmer’s Almanac. The inclusion of her children in the narrative makes clear Seidl’s awareness of the work of Richard Louv, and makes the title prescient in ways that nature writers could ignore in the past. The fact of the matter is that Seidl brings her children into the story because it is their world that is so drastically changing. At once deeply personal and solidly scientific, Seidl’s chronicle manages to be concerned without being cloying. --Colleen Mondor
Review
An eloquent celebration of commitment to family, community, and the ever-so-fragile natural world . . . Regardless of where you live, this may very well be one of the most important books you'll ever read.—Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger in the Kingdom
"A timely, important book—both troubling and lovely." —John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home
"This is the voice we need to hear now: a biologist mother, with no time for despair, bearing witness to the unraveling of the ecological world within her children's backyard-which is all of our children's backyard. With urgency and grace, Amy Seidl delivers the message I've been listening for."—Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author of Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
"Early Spring is brave and eloquent testimony from a reliable witness about the extraordinary changes we face in the very nature of daily life on earth. It reminds us that the human heart and mind have their place in the order of things, too."—James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency
"With the mind of a scientist and the heart of a mom, Amy Seidl explores the effects of climate chaos on her home-ground. . . . A visionary personal inquiry that remains fixed on promise even in the face of grim and unsettling facts. This is a brave book."—Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
"Seidl's tender descriptions of her young daughters' encounters with the natural world-skipping rocks, choosing Halloween pumpkins from the garden and 'gorging on the abundance' of cherries picked off the tree-add personal poignancy to a subject 'few can stand to talk about at any length.'"—Publishers Weekly
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
2-1/2 stars, really.
By also known as Moira
I could tell by the end of the first chapter that I would never have bought this book for myself, and my feelings are quite strong due to the writing style of the author, the lack of real content, and what seems to be an underlying philosophical difference between the author and myself. I have rewritten this review several times trying to find a reasonable way to explain what I mean.
Early Spring is an introductory gloss on the local manifestations of global warming. Seidl alternates between rather detached scientific explanations and overly sensuous descriptions of her Vermont environs as she points out that global warming is apparent in one's own backyard. She asks, and prompts those who have obviously not been paying much attention until now to ask, what global warming means for traditions, communities, the future. The book never gets much further than this- posing the question- and could stand to be a great deal shorter for all it accomplishes.
I was looking forward to Early Spring, and I have to say I'm disappointed. The subject is important enough but never actually discussed- just set up. Over and over and over again.
Early Spring is done in a literary style- Seidl aims for aesthetic expression as much as the conveying of information. Unfortunately, her inflated style quickly reaches the point of overkill, and she does not manage to add much to the subject of global warming at all. I knew much of the subject matter going in; I do not live in Vermont but neither do I live in a cave. I kept waiting for her to tie it all together and take it further, and she doesn't. Instead I get to hear about her sensuous rapture at the bounty nature created apparently for no other purpose but her pleasure, and, of course, I get to hear more about her darling children. Such passages went past the point of unnecessary all the way to disturbing at times- I nursed my children to the age of two and a half years each, mind you, and I was still weirded out by the overly familiar manner in which she described breastfeeding her own. And I'm still not sure exactly what that had to do with maple syrup traditions in Vermont, or the sap starting to run earlier with each passing year. Seidl's manner of suddenly switching between professional scientist mode and sensual mother mode made each seem the more exaggerated, and somehow exclusive of the other. This hardly needs to be the case...
Displaying an actual dead bird via overhead projector might have gotten the attention of her students, and it is surely a more engaging portrayal than a stick figure, but noticing the intricacy of the feathers is not the same thing as realizing the inherent value of the bird's life, and how the world is diminished by the loss of the bird. Knowing a bird's species name and habits is no substitute for entering into the actual experience of the bird itself. Handling a lifeless bird nonchalantly is not an expression of fearlessness or fellowship, but of a callous remove and a lack of respect for both the bird and the pathogens that might have killed it.
Seidl writes in one passage about her daughter catching a butterfly by the wings, and the thrill in her eyes as she feels her first sense of control over a wild creature. Seidl does not seem to realize that this self same butterfly could theoretically cause hurricanes simply by flapping those wings. Human control over the natural world is an illusion we have to outgrow if we are to acknowledge that our impact on the world is, far from a lordly management of things, endangering all life on the planet, including our own. Against our expectations. How can a book about global warming miss this point?
After the first third of the book, I wanted to put it down and walk away. Sadly, I wouldn't have missed much if I had.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The Global as Local
By Maggie Brasted
Early Spring is a personal reflection on potential disruption of natural ecosystems and human communities from anthropogenic climate change. Seidle asks questions that need our attention and offers informed speculation but cannot tell us the answers; nobody really knows.
Early Spring is frequently engaging. Homey descriptions of family life and modern rural Vermont society are sweet but not overly sugared. Imperiled species and the complex ecosystem interactions they depend on are elegantly unfolded.
I found potential impacts on relationships in natural systems particularly thought provoking. No element is isolated, each rare species and well-loved creature relies on a complex web of relationships. Entire natural systems will not simply shift their activities smoothly to start spring earlier. Migrants depending on day-length cues will miss food sources that rely on temperature cues. Each change to complex dynamic systems will impact other elements of the system, generating cumulative changes we cannot anticipate.
Seidle writes as much about potential impacts on the social live of her community as on natural systems. I found these sections to be a little weaker. Speculations on how local customs may alter seem rather trite at times. I felt she tried a little too hard to relate global climate change to her own life when mostly all she can report is vague worries about things that seem rather minor in the big scheme.
Throughout Early Spring, Seidle consciously echoes Rachel Carson. Carson's Silent Spring made the little-known issue of unbridled pesticide use a compelling national concern, spurring federal legislation. Early Spring, in contrast, runs over well-known ground and articulates no policy agenda. This is a more personal work, smaller both physically and in scope than Carson's. Still and all, I enjoyed this small semi-precious gem of personal nature writing on an important and timely issue.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful Storytelling
By Annette Lamb
Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World by Amy Seidl skillfully balances expert scientific discussion with personal storytelling. Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Early Spring explores climate change at both a global and personal level.
"...the USDA has found that on average, lilacs in the U.S. are blooming two to four days earlier per decade than they did forty years ago." (p. 29). "Lilacs bloom eight to sixteen days earlier than they did when I was born. And by the time my daughters are my age, the lilacs in the hollow will be blooming fourteen to twenty-eight days earlier than they are now - in April rather than in May." (p. 32)
Each chapter explores a different theme including weather, gardens, water, birds, butterflies, and meadows and fields. Seidl's eloquent descriptions of everyday encounters with each theme are connected to the larger issues of climate change. Her smooth transitions between personal stories and global warming research add to the effectiveness of the narrative. In addition, her selection of timely statistics, disturbing trends, and concrete examples provide strong support for climate change. Lilacs blooming early, reductions in river volume, and changes in migration patterns were just a few of her many unsettling examples.
"Some ecosystems are more resilient than others; it depends on the ability of their constituent species to react (behaviorally, physiologically, and phenologically) to changing conditions. Still other ecosystems are crossing thresholds and collapsing under the degree of change; their constituents species are unable to adapt (no genetic or phenotypic capacity, no habitat available, or immobile by nature) to the environmental changes around them. It can be said that human populations are reading and crossing ecological thresholds, too." (p 156)
From Aldo Leopold to Terry Tempest Williams, my favorite nature writers speak passionately about their love of specific landscapes. Seidl brings the mountains of Vermont to life through her vivid descriptions of local people and their relationship to the natural world.
"The availability of a caterpillar to the young of a neotropical songbird hinges on the availability of a forest bud to the caterpillar, which in turn relies on an abiotic cue to trigger growth in a tree." (p. 97)
Reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Seidl incorporates anecdotes involving her husband, children, and neighbors as she discusses changes in the seasons.
"Celia stands at the mirror, her image set in the backdrop of trees, brook, mountain range, and endless sky. Sunlight illuminates it all. She's as yet unaware of the role she'll play in the world's unfolding." (p. 160)
The book concludes with an informative bibliography and notes that provide additional resources for further reading. If you're a fan of nature writing and are looking for an engaging narrative rooted in the science of ecology and biology, I highly recommend Early Spring.
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