Turning to Stone

Winner of the 2025 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing “A beautiful book—at once intimate and sweeping, informative and moving.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen. Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable to interpret th