In Your Nature

<p><strong><em>In Your Nature</em>-a reflective nature-focused memoir in the tradition of Aldo Leopold E.O. Wilson and Annie Dillard</strong></p><p>You're five years old barefoot in the shade of a white cedar staring into a cornfield that might as well be the Amazon. You're holding a worm in one hand and a question in the other. You step forward.</p><p></p><p>That's how it begins.</p><p></p><p>This is not just a memoir. It's a field guide to a life lived in close conversation with the natural world. A trout stream in Iowa. A frozen lake in Ontario. A duck blind in Iowa. A classroom filled with students who think lichens are just moss with a PR problem.</p><p></p><p>Colbert a biologist by trade and a storyteller by compulsion doesn't just recount his life-he catalogs it like a naturalist with a butterfly net and a notebook full of wonder. He traps muskrats as a teenager teaches his grandchildren to fish and leads a flotilla of students down a river to remove a bathtub. He names things. He remembers things. He makes you care about things you didn't know existed.</p><p></p><p>You'll laugh. You'll learn. You'll want to go outside.</p><p></p><p>Bound in softcover but best read with dirt under your fingernails and a thermos of coffee nearby.</p><p></p><p>Warning: May cause spontaneous identification of fungi birdsong and your own place in the ecosystem.</p>