A fascinating and thought-provoking read, particularly strong on the biophilia hypothesis importance of nature to us as a species which, after all, evolved in a very different environment to the one which many of us inhabit.

Just a note that where I struggled as a European reader was the extremely US-focused nature of the book - many of the Disney films and wild-west style cultural narratives assumed to be a universal feature of childhood were completely unfamiliar to me, and as someone sadly too familiar with British failings in conservation holding us up as an example of best practice in several chapters seemed rather ironic.