An interesting look into a world that’s all around us, but that we rarely know how to see. Thorough, at times even bordering on the obsessive, but it works for the topic. Suffers a bit when he tries to get all high-flown and Thoreuavian. You can imitate Thoreau without “imitating Thoreau” if you know what I mean. But those parts are ignorable, and the substance of the book and the entertainingness of the stories it tells carry it through.