"says more about our relations with a living planet than an entire library of other Nature books. I couldn't recommend it more highly."
Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
 
Your Lowly Hedgehog Knows takes a clear, fresh look at the physical world around us and finds it more startling and more heartening than the media would have us believe. It raises many questions, and even answers some of them. How can a cat be a portal to the universe? How do you write a tree? Why did our ancestors make cave paintings? and who is Mr Bun?
 
Like the previous volume Do Not Call the Tortoise, Hedgehog offers a quietly revolutionary new/old perspective with the help, among others, of poets, biologists, woodlice, trees, John Lennon, a high-flying vulture and, most of all, an openness to wonder.
 
Wonder is not a luxury or a leisure-time activity; it is the element through which we see our ramifying world. All we need to do is stop and look. We can walk through the world each day as though it were a film we’ve never seen, uncertain what might happen next, alert to each new scene and mood in this gigantic drama. It may be the only live screening in the universe; it’d be a crime to miss it.
from The Gigantic Drama