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More than one reviewer has found a Thoreauvian echo in Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness--besides crows' antic intelligence (studies indicate crows may have as much smarts as apes), Haupt has had living deliberately on her mind for some time.

David Williams, the guy who wrote one of the most interesting books about Seattle we've ever read, emailed lately to let us know that what promises to be the absolute most interesting book we've ever read about stone (in a class by itself, actually) is coming in the summer. Where Street-Smart Naturalist explored the plants and animals around Seattle--and not "around Seattle" like just outside Seattle in the Cascades, but "around Seattle" like right there on the sidewalk in front of you--with just a chapter on the stone that can be found in Seattle, this time he's returning to his geologist roots and sticking with rock the whole way through. The book will be titled Stories in Stone.