Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks Sports_Gift_Guide Dunthorne confronts the uncomfortable questions

Dunthorne confronts the uncomfortable questions that lie at the heart of every family: Can we ever understand our origins

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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks Sports_Gift_Guide Dunthorne confronts the uncomfortable questionsWinner of the 2025 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing A beautiful bookat 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