Comments on: Book review – Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:33:44 +0000

[…] as Francis Bacon and René Descartes. Especially the latter’s dualism, which cast humans as apart from nature rather than a part of nature, removed any remaining sense of restraint. “Land became property. Living beings became […]

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By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2024 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:17:03 +0000

[…] “also-ran”, honorary mention goes to Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will and Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe. I would have loved to include these deeply impressive books as well, except that they were […]

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By: Book review – Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:16:30 +0000

[…] Crist’s call for an ecological civilization that does not see nature as a mere larder, or Carl Safina’s call to abandon the Platonic dualism that has allowed us to think of ourselves as apart from nature. […]

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By: Book review – Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:41:19 +0000

[…] that got threatened species in trouble in the first place? For me, books such as Abundant Earth and Alfie & Me have really driven home the point that, unless we change our relationship with the natural world […]

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By: Book review – The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:21:39 +0000

[…] but it cannot be exempt from criticism. I rather agree with what Carl Safina recently wrote in Alfie & Me on the difference between the two: “For discerning objective reality […] science has […]

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By: Book review – The Ecology of Collective Behavior | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:04:55 +0000

[…] lately. Safina made exactly this observation (that reductionism overlooks relational dynamics) in Alfie & Me. Also, this is the second book in short order that mentions panta rhei (“everything […]

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By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:43:03 +0000

[…] is permanent change” (p. 28), appeals. I recently praised both Kevin J. Mitchell and Carl Safina for effectively writing the same. He links this to the discipline of processual biology and the […]

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By: thesimlux

thesimlux — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:59:57 +0000

Owls are fascinating! Thank you for sharing this knowledge!!

By: inquisitivebiologist

inquisitivebiologist — Thu, 16 May 2024 16:51:27 +0000

In reply to smellincoffee.

Oh wow, you’re in for a treat then! That was his bestseller that still gets mentioned in the same breath with his name.

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By: smellincoffee

smellincoffee — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:48:33 +0000

I loved his Becoming Wild, but didn’t know about Beyond Words. Will check that one out and circle back to this one!

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