The Mountain Knows the Mountain

“The Mountain Knows the Mountain is the finest example I’ve ever read that reveals what it is to ‘think like a mountain,’ a notion forwarded by Aldo Leopold and perfected by Phil Connors. His book is a perfect meld of prose and poetry (mostly haiku) that is an expression of profound love for a mountain habitat where he has long served as a fire lookout. This elegiac book re-sacralizes a habitat long fallen prey to debilitating bureaucracy that secularizes the natural world through commitment to erroneous, often fatal procedure.” - Jack Loeffler, author of Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West “Pick up The Mountain Knows the Mountain, and you will sit with Connors atop his fire lookout in the Gila Wilderness, scanning the horizon for wisps of smoke. You will also listen to Connors speak about the moving of the summer season, the writing of haiku, those fires smoldering below, the state of American wilderness and our American dream, all in beautiful prose and poetry.” - Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave “Find in these pages profound beauty, deep comfort, and vexing disquiet. Ask yourself some of the questions Connors keeps asking. Then walk out of the house to some perfect, inscrutable run of nature and fall in love.” - Gary Ferguson, author of The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World