The healing grace of nature leaps off the page as we follow Katherine on her daily sojourns. With gratitude and simplicity, The Morning Light, the Lily White reminds us of the world right outside our window. Like the blue sky cleansed by summer rain, we see the world with fresh eyes.

—Mark Daniel Seiler, author of River’s Child

In the tradition of Edwin Way Teale, Hauswirth offers up her daily observations through the year on walks in Connecticut and beyond with interesting facts, provocative questions, innumerable resources and common-sense steps we all can take to appreciate and better care for our planet. Whether a budding or an experienced naturalist, this book belongs on the bedside table as an inspiring way to start and/or end one’s day.

—Sarah Heminway, Director, Northeast Region, The Connecticut Audubon Society

Katherine Hauswirth’s wise new tribute to “our swirling sphere” has magically done it again. Her experiences twinkle and sparkle on each page, simultaneously frolicsome and deep. I especially gravitated to the daily dips of Spring, my favorite season. If you don’t know how a peeper chorus starts, what a gall is, and why wahoo is named so appropriately, you need this book and will rejoice to find out.

—Carol Holst, Postconsumers

Katherine Hauswirth brings a gift of knowledge to the page. Her writer’s voice is neither self-effacing nor adorned but simply true, her grasp of the how and where and why of animals in the wild encyclopedic. The Morning Light, The Lily White is a pleasure to read. There will be a copy on my nightstand and at least one more set aside as a gift to a friend. 

—Mark Seth Lender, Explorer in Residence at Public Radio’s Living on Earth

I’m lucky to live in the same town as Katherine Hauswirth and have sometimes bumped into her peering thoughtfully at lichen or a tree branch. Her daily musings in this thoughtful almanac will pull you into her world, a place where humans can contemplate lying down with the beasts and working toward a better future for our planet.

—Christine Woodside, environmental writer and editor-in-chief of Appalachia journal

Through the daily entries in The Morning Light, The Lily White, Katherine Hauswirth leads us into the natural world with a searcher’s heart and a pathfinder’s knowledge. These passages guide us through the seasons and the year. They are invitations for how to examine that world more deeply as much as they are lessons for how to be both corporeal and spiritual beings within it. Each reading is a flash of inspiration. She encourages us to see more than we look, and to ask more than we know.

—Denton Loving, author of Crimes Against Birds