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The Earth Said Remember Me

How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet

Go outside. Bear witness.
Make a record. Pass it on.

As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we humans get used to it—we adapt, we normalize, we forget. Scientists call this "shifting baseline syndrome" and warn that it's why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.

In this positive and inspiring manifesto, the environmental activist and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers an antidote, focusing on four simple but powerful rules that everyone can use to resist environmental amnesia: Go outside. Bear witness. Make a record. Pass it on.

Mark makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us "remember the Earth" and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. And he shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen across the country who are putting them into practice. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.

Format Hardcover
Pages 208
Release July 14, 2026

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Praise for The Earth Said Remember Me

“This beau­ti­ful and urgent book will con­vince you that tend­ing to our mem­o­ries of the earth — done togeth­er, with our hands in the dirt and our eyes lift­ed — is not only resis­tance, but a kind of joy, a hope­ful and prac­ti­cal way of build­ing a more sus­tain­able tomor­row in the name of wonder.”

Aimee Nezhuku­matathil, author of World of Wonders

“Jason Dove Mark’s new book names and explores some of the key prac­tices for shap­ing a good Anthro­pocene, and also for expe­ri­enc­ing a ful­filled human life with­in that shared project. Remem­ber­ing that we are social pri­mates, mam­mals, ani­mals liv­ing on the side of a plan­et; these are the cru­cial start­ing points for life to have mean­ing. And mean­ing is as cru­cial as food. This book helps to clar­i­fy these things; it is a kind of cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al map.”

Kim Stan­ley Robin­son, author of The Min­istry of the Future

“Full of hope and wis­dom, The Earth Said Remem­ber Me is a mov­ing guide to how record­ing nature’s won­der and loss can help us mend the future. Jason Dove Mark makes a pow­er­ful case for why we must chron­i­cle the fire­flies that lit the woods before the fires, the sea stars that lined the beach­es before the blight. Then he shows us how. Fam­i­lies, cit­i­zen groups, and class­es should read it togeth­er to record, to remem­ber — and to resist.”

Cyn­thia Bar­nett, author of The Sound of the Sea and Rain: A Nat­ur­al and Cul­tur­al His­to­ry.

“Jason Dove Mark reminds us that with­out mem­o­ry, we have no imag­i­na­tion. First step: go out­side. Then read this book and bear wit­ness, make a record, and pass it on. This is our path for­ward for hon­or­ing — and recov­er­ing — our beau­ti­ful, fast-dis­ap­pear­ing world.”

Flo­rence Williams, author of The Nature Fix