“For many years now, whenever I can, I escape the obligatory city streets. I take short excursions, or exhausting journeys to remote places. […] I gather impressions of a dying world, I return to a world mistakenly believed to be eternal.”

Paolo Pecere, who has traveled to all five continents, reflects on his experiences to propose seven physical and spiritual paths that take us to places like the Himalayas, the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon, New York, Venice, Lagos, Borneo, Iceland, the polar glaciers, the desert, the oceans…

Seven journeys in which he reflects on our relationship with this planet. A prodigious and exciting voyage in which we will look into the eyes of an orangutan, contemplate an infinite variety of plants, accompany Humboldt and Darwin on their journeys…

What is our relationship with nature today? We must rediscover it and rethink our connection to it, learn anew to contemplate it with respect and admiration. And also to confront the dangers that threaten it by recovering our biological memory, perceiving the indissoluble connection of all that exists on Earth.

Using the tools of philosophy, anthropology, and ecology, among other disciplines, this book invites us to relate to the planet and all its inhabitants in a closer and more empathetic way, and to imagine another possible future: one in which the modern city and nature are not necessarily antagonistic.