A review by chaoslibrarian
Things That Are by Amy Leach

4.0

It took me a long time to finish this because I would read a handful of essays and then not pick the book up again for a while. But I did really enjoy reading it. My favorite essay was "God" - like many of the essays, the full impact of it is only felt as you finish it. My favorite quote, from the essay "The Round-Earth Affair": "But perhaps nature needs us like a hostage needs her captors: nature needs us not to annihilate her, not to run her over, not to cover her with cement, not to chop her down. We can hardly admire ourselves, then, when we stop to accommodate nature's needs: we are dubious heroes who create a peril and then save its victims, we who rescue the the animals and the trees from ourselves."