"With lyrical prose, Sutton explores such thought-provoking questions as how best to teach children to see the world, free of adult preconceptions, and what humans would see if they viewed their surroundings through ten eyes distributed over their bodies like horseshoe crabs. The result is a revelatory perspective on life on Earth.""— Publishers Weekly

"Intricate, personal, often astonishing, and simply quite beautiful throughout, Carolyn Sutton’s word-sculpted narrative deserves to be savored. That’s how delicious this book is." — Carl Safina, author of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe.

"A strange and wondrous book brimming with heart. One minute you're reading an essay on crabs, and the next you're out among the Nazca geoglyphs. That is because, as Caroline Sutton lyrically shows, everything is connected: the sun's glare, the moon's tide, a dying mother, a winsome grandchild, a sycamore, a laurel, a dove. Every page ignites a sense of wonder and makes you treasure our world anew." — Sy Mongomery, New York Times bestselling author of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell.

"Caroline Sutton writes with superb powers of description and empathy for creatures as far-ranging as horseshoe crabs, voles, Greenland sharks, and jellyfish. And those as close to home as the canine family member and that insatiably curious and fiery creature, the human child. I admire her deep respect and desire to learn from them all. She is a welcome voice in drawing us closer to the essential knowledge of the 'symbiosis of all creatures.'"—Alison Hawthorne Deming