Foreword Review - Rachel Jagareski
The essay collection Wild Chorus is thought-provoking in its analyses of animal intelligence and is replete with intriguing speculations about how animals can guide human beings.
Mary Getten
This is a book for animal and nature lovers like no other. Wild Chorus invites readers to discover the ways of being that wild animals can teach us all. Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, teaching us how to find joy while adapting to a changing world.
PhD Marc Bekoff
In a period of time in which so many people feel alienated from nature, Brenda Peterson seamlessly draws us into the fascinating worlds of a wide variety of nonhuman animal beings so that we can experience what life is like for them. Wild Chorus explores how, when we open up our senses and hearts to what animals are saying to one another and to us, we can rewild ourselves and feel at one with the magnificent animals with whom we share our awe-inspiring planet.
Joy Harjo
Nature writing at its finest: elegant, revelatory and absolutely finely crafted. A deep-sea diver, her territory is the immense psyche of the American dream.
Sy Montgomery
Wild Chorus is a heart-song of lyric writing, deep tenderness, and more-than-human wisdom. Through her extraordinary and transformative encounters with animals from wolves to whales, animal-adept Brenda Peterson affirms the vital and vivid connections between us and the rest of creation, connections that keep the world alive. This book is beautiful, brave, and important.
Lindie O'Brien
Peterson’s wondrous journey chasing the mysteries of animals is fascinating. The way she weaves the wisdom of other researchers so naturally with her own stories makes for an enjoyable read about her amazing animal apprentice adventures.
Rick McIntyre
In Wild Chorus, Brenda Peterson demonstrates her ability to understand animals and her talent in writing about their personalities and individual traits. Her stories about wolves perfectly parallel my studies of wild wolves in Yellowstone National Park. Highly recommended!
Marc Bekoff
In a period of time in which so many people feel alienated from nature, Brenda Peterson seamlessly draws us into the fascinating worlds of a wide variety of nonhuman animal beings so that we can experience what life is like for them. Wild Chorus explores how, when we open up our senses and hearts to what animals are saying to one another and to us, we can rewild ourselves and feel at one with the magnificent animals with whom we share our awe-inspiring planet.
Library Journal
★ 03/01/2024
Award-winning nature writer Peterson's (Wild Orca: The Oldest, Wisest Whale in the World) new book of essays explores her relationship with animals and the natural world and the wisdom that humans can glean from them. She explains that her love of nature writing came largely from her father, a forest ranger, from whom she learned that all living creatures and participants in nature have meaning, value, and purpose. Personal experience led her to discover that most wildlife can work together with people in a positive manner. Other essays in this book draw upon her encounters with wild animals (whales, dolphins, wolves, bears) to illustrate how people can learn from wildlife about improving the environment and the overall well-being of humans. VERDICT At first glance, this book seems like a plea from an activist, but it's far more than that. Peterson's writing style and her intimately told stories about how animals and people can jointly navigate the planet have the ability to draw readers in and leave them with hope about the future of the world.—Steve Dixon
