Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

"Doug Tallamy lays out all you need to know to participate in one of the great conservation projects of our time. Read it and get started!" --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction

"Tallamy is one of the most original and persuasive present-day authors on conservation." --Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

"Doug Tallamy is a quiet revolutionary and a hero of our time, taking back the future one yard at a time. In Nature's Best Hope, he shows how each of us can help turn our cities, towns and world into engines of biodiversity and human health."--Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and Our Wild Calling

"Here is one area where individual action really can help make up for all that government fails to do: your backyard can provide the margin to keep species alive. Mow less, think more!"--Bill McKibben, author of Falter

"Tallamy shows how to transform yards into ecological wonderlands full of vibrant life. Your local birds, butterflies, and plants will thank you for learning from his wise advice."--David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen, Pulitzer finalist, and The Songs of Trees

"This is a handbook for not only transforming your own yard, but for talking to your neighbors, the teachers in the paved schoolyard next door, and your town councilors about connecting one green haven to another to build wildlife corridors that become, as Tallamy puts it, a Homegrown National Park."--Anne Raver, award-winning columnist and author of Deep in the Green

"A clarion call to go native: acting locally in your yard or neighborhood and thinking globally about the biodiversity crisis."--Scott Freeman, author of Saving Tarboo Creek

"Doug Tallamy's inspiring vision of a human landscape capable of supporting a wondrous diversity of life is powerfully articulated in Nature's Best Hope."--Rick Darke, landscape designer, lecturer, photographer, and coauthor of Gardens of the High Line

"A revelatory guide whose application can begin just outside our doors." --Booklist

"Tallamy provides answers in a down-to-earth, personalized style...this is an essential addition to most gardening collections." --Library Journal

"Nature's Best Hope advocates not just a horticultural revolution, but a cultural one, bridging the human-dominated landscape and the natural world." --Smithsonian Magazine

"An inspiring and necessary book...Tallamy is so important in today's ecological efforts...everyone can (and should) read his writings." --The Garden Club of America

"An outstanding book, full of deep insights, and practical advice." --Dennis Liu, Ph.D., Vice President for Education, EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation

"In a world full of doom and gloom, Dr. Tallamy's latest book is an uplifting and empowering guide to how each and every one of us can be part of the conservation movement and it all starts with native plants." --In Defense of Plants

"If you're concerned about doing something good for the environment, Nature's Best Hope is the blueprint you need. By acting now, you can help preserve our precious wildlife--and the planet--for future generations." --Hockessin Community News

"Nature's Best Hope helps us to understand the urgency we all should and must have as we try to make a difference to our ever-changing planet." --Nature Revisited

"A full-blown manifesto that calls for the radical rethinking of the American residential landscape, starting with the lawn." --The Washington Post

"An essential read for those concerned with the fate of planet Earth and its creatures." --Connecticut Gardener

"Nature's Best Hope is a message for every land owner, renter, property manager, container gardener, government planner and administrator: You have a vital role to play in the survival of biodiversity on this planet!" --The Press of Atlantic City