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National Public Radio: “Contact with nature is not some magical elixir but the natural world is the substrate on which we must build our existence,” writes Stephen Kellert in his new book Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World. In it, he tells stories of the environment’s effect on us, and ours on it. His writing builds on the traditions of Thoreau, John Muir and Rachel Carson. Modern society, he argues, has become adversarial in its relationship to nature, having greatly undervalued the natural world beyond…