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The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet
A rallying cry and resistance manual from one of the leaders breathing new life into the environmental movement.
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome,” and they warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.
In this inspiring manifesto, environmental advocate and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers antidotes that everyone can use to resist ecological amnesia and make lasting progress to repair and revive a livable planet. He puts forth four simple but powerful rules for a life lived in communion with the Earth:
Go outside
Bear witness
Make a record
Pass it on
From the mountains of California to the lakes of Wisconsin and across the lush forests of his beloved Pacific Northwest, Mark shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen who are putting these remedies into practice. And he makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us “remember the earth” and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.
As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome,” and they warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.
In this inspiring manifesto, environmental advocate and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers antidotes that everyone can use to resist ecological amnesia and make lasting progress to repair and revive a livable planet. He puts forth four simple but powerful rules for a life lived in communion with the Earth:
Go outside
Bear witness
Make a record
Pass it on
From the mountains of California to the lakes of Wisconsin and across the lush forests of his beloved Pacific Northwest, Mark shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen who are putting these remedies into practice. And he makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us “remember the earth” and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.
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224 pages, Hardcover
Published July 14, 2026
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July 14, 2026
A sweetly short and imaginatively written book about planting the seedbeds of hopes in the midst of the climate crisis. I'd have liked to explore restorative efforts across a wider range of geographic areas and species---although the Monarch, salmon, Mount Shasta, and northern lake stories were emotionally charged and intriguing. I think it might owe to Jason Dove Mark's captivating writing style, more so than anything lacking in the content of the book, that I was left wanting more. Regardless, I'd encourage anyone to read this. Even for those who are already eco-activists, Dove Mark's book is a much-needed rallying call for collective memory and activism.
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