Turning to Stone
Marcia Bjornerud
aug. 2024 · Wildfire · Lest av Rebecca Stern
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'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR
'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN
Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.
Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely career studying mountains in remote parts of the world. As one of few women in her field, she witnessed the shift in our understanding of the Earth, from solid object to an entity in a constant state of transformation. In the most tumultuous times of her own life, a deep understanding of our rocky planet imbued her life with meaning.
The lives of rocks are long and complex, spanning billions of years and yet shaping our own human lives in powerful, invisible ways. Sandstone that filters out pathogens creating underground oases in aquifers of clean water. Ecologite is "the chosen rock" whose formation keeps the planet running. Earth is not just a passive backdrop, or a source of resources to be mined, extracted, and carved out. Rocks are full of wisdom, but somewhere along the way many of us have forgotten how to hear it.
When we are uncertain about where to find truth, a geocentric worldview reminds us that we are Earthlings, part of a planetary community where we can find wisdom in the most unlikely places.
More praise for TURNING TO STONE:
'Marcia Bjornerud writes evocatively' COUNTRY LIFE
'A nuanced celebration of the language of stone' DAVID GEORGE HASKELL
'A unique and timeless book' ROBERT HALZEN
'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN
Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.
Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely career studying mountains in remote parts of the world. As one of few women in her field, she witnessed the shift in our understanding of the Earth, from solid object to an entity in a constant state of transformation. In the most tumultuous times of her own life, a deep understanding of our rocky planet imbued her life with meaning.
The lives of rocks are long and complex, spanning billions of years and yet shaping our own human lives in powerful, invisible ways. Sandstone that filters out pathogens creating underground oases in aquifers of clean water. Ecologite is "the chosen rock" whose formation keeps the planet running. Earth is not just a passive backdrop, or a source of resources to be mined, extracted, and carved out. Rocks are full of wisdom, but somewhere along the way many of us have forgotten how to hear it.
When we are uncertain about where to find truth, a geocentric worldview reminds us that we are Earthlings, part of a planetary community where we can find wisdom in the most unlikely places.
More praise for TURNING TO STONE:
'Marcia Bjornerud writes evocatively' COUNTRY LIFE
'A nuanced celebration of the language of stone' DAVID GEORGE HASKELL
'A unique and timeless book' ROBERT HALZEN
Om forfatteren
MARCIA BJORNERUD is Professor of Geosciences at LawrenceUniversity, researching the physics of earthquakes and mountainbuilding. She is a two-time Fulbright Senior Scholar as well as aFellow of the Geological Society of America and the WisconsinAcademy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
Bjornerud is a contributing writer to the New Yorker, Wall StreetJournal, Wired and Los Angeles Times, and the author of Readingthe Rocks, Timefulness and Geopedia. Timefulness was longlisted forthe 2019 PEN/E. O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing,and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize forScience & Technology and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.Turning to Stone was awarded the 2025 John Burroughs Medal fordistinguished natural history writing.
Bjornerud is a contributing writer to the New Yorker, Wall StreetJournal, Wired and Los Angeles Times, and the author of Readingthe Rocks, Timefulness and Geopedia. Timefulness was longlisted forthe 2019 PEN/E. O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing,and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize forScience & Technology and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.Turning to Stone was awarded the 2025 John Burroughs Medal fordistinguished natural history writing.
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