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Praise for Water and What We Know
“What is the effect of place on character? Of our birth landscape on how we see the world? This wonderful, meditative book asks all the right questions.”―Will Weaver
"Writing with the eloquence of [Barry] Lopez and the compassion of Terry Tempest Williams, Babine is also reaching toward a new generation, ensuring the continuity and the legacy of what she has learned.”―Los Angeles Review of Books
“Babine’s focus is on the call of the west and the mountain and rivers that carved its shape. Eloquently, passionately, she strips back the mythology of this land, seeks out the truth lying beneath our American stories, and embraces the complications we must all accept in calling anyplace home.”―Booklist
“The value of essays in this tradition of Thoreau and Olson is to share the insights of others, to measure by our own sentiments and ultimately to examine better how we meet and see the world.”―Lake Superior Magazine
“Whether you’re a kindred spirit to the north woods or the most confirmed city dweller, Babine reminds us that the only way we can be grounded in this world is to know our place in it.”―Split Rock Review
“The stories in Water and What We Know bleed together the places of Babine’s childhood―lake, forest, and sky―until, as in the Minnesota she so loves, land and water become one.”―Mid-American Review
“What is the effect of place on character? Of our birth landscape on how we see the world? This wonderful, meditative book asks all the right questions.”―Will Weaver
"Writing with the eloquence of [Barry] Lopez and the compassion of Terry Tempest Williams, Babine is also reaching toward a new generation, ensuring the continuity and the legacy of what she has learned.”―Los Angeles Review of Books
“Babine’s focus is on the call of the west and the mountain and rivers that carved its shape. Eloquently, passionately, she strips back the mythology of this land, seeks out the truth lying beneath our American stories, and embraces the complications we must all accept in calling anyplace home.”―Booklist
“The value of essays in this tradition of Thoreau and Olson is to share the insights of others, to measure by our own sentiments and ultimately to examine better how we meet and see the world.”―Lake Superior Magazine
“Whether you’re a kindred spirit to the north woods or the most confirmed city dweller, Babine reminds us that the only way we can be grounded in this world is to know our place in it.”―Split Rock Review
“The stories in Water and What We Know bleed together the places of Babine’s childhood―lake, forest, and sky―until, as in the Minnesota she so loves, land and water become one.”―Mid-American Review