Beck Mordini, Bio4Climate’s executive director shares her recommendation for a book that is special to her both in honor of Valentine’s Day and as a tribute to the passing of our beloved co-founder and longtime Executive Director, Adam Sacks.
Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship By Catherine Raven
From the preface:
“I realized that a fox, like a rainbow and every other gift from Nature had an intrinsic value that was quite independent of its longevity. After that, whenever I questioned devoting so much time to an animal whose lifespan barely exceeded the blink of an eye I remembered rainbows.”
It would be a disservice to describe this as a book about nature, it is rather a novel about two creatures from different worlds learning to see and appreciate each other. It is a poetic telling of deep seeing as each clump of sedge becomes a home, a food source, a hindrance to finding food or a cover for not becoming food. It is a gentle and patient tale of what it takes to truly know another, and in that knowing to discover love. And finally a story of how we are changed by our relationships.
This isn’t a book you rush to discover the ending, but rather a book you settle into and carry within you as you step back out into your own natural spaces.
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Posted: February 20, 2026