Nature Underfoot
Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us

I think Hainze might have lost some people in the last chapter. Throughout the book he encourages respect and appreciation for creepy crawly things, which isn't too far a stretch for most people. After reading about the life histories of dandelions and dung beetles I think people can generally feel......more

I adore this book, it changed my entire Outlook and relationship with a natural world starting with my own home and yard. It is beautifully written, fascinating and in by being so fascinating was enormous Lee rhetorically effective in changing my behaviors towards plants and animals and insects......more

Interesting and informative, but ultimately not for me. I already pick up bugs and take them outside, refuse pesticides, grow native plants & am a well-rounded hippie with an outsized respect for wee life. Preaching to the choir, though the choir was nodding vigorously throughout.......more

100% reads like an entomology ethicist wrote this book. The people who feel thrown off from the last chapter must have forgotten the author is also an ethicist. That being said, I do echo the voices and I wish he mostly just wore his entomology hat when writing this book. Instead the entomology reall......more

Who knew? And before this book I would have added who cares? But, after reading John Hainze’s book Nature Underfoot, I now know more and care more than I would have imagined. I have never written a book review before, but after reading Nature Underfoot, I knew that I wanted to share my thoughts with......more