"A marvel of textual collation on a par with Christian Marclay's supercut film 'The Clock.' It's remarkable how coherently the narrative reads, despite its countless patchwork pieces, a testament not only to Comitta's diligence but to the likeminded ways that novelists have tended to write about natural phenomena like snowfall or sunrise." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

"A meditative, lush narrative on the relationship between time and nature. . . . Like Proust, Comitta centers you in the reading experience, not just demanding your labor of comprehension at the languorous, long sentence level, but also requiring your attention and patience. . . . You'll be hard-pressed to find another book with as verdant an archive of beautiful descriptive sentences as the one contained in The Nature Book." --Darina Sikmashvili, Los Angeles Review of Books

"With long asides alongside neat rhymes, with ponderous thoughts on the nature of time near light scenes showing time's mysterious passing, with 'a great nest of angry snakes' and still green apple trees, Comitta has created something a lot like an ecosystem." --Madeleine Crum, The Baffler

"An epic journey--visual, textural and musical--that illustrates the vastness of our environment and its representation in literature." --Joseph Holt, Star Tribune

"Their authorial vision weaves together a wild variety of styles with a steady eye on the land, sky, and water, as well as on the plants and animals living in each. Comitta approaches assembly with a conceptual rigor, but they do not sacrifice polish or readability. The novel flows beautifully. . . . An optimistic critique of the form, made entirely of the form." --Crow Jonah Norlander, BOMB Magazine

"A magnum opus about the planet using only found text. . . . A dynamic and singular reading experience." --Kirkus, starred review

"In this seamless anthology, we forget that the experience of reading about nature is mediated by human voices and, when suspended in the text, succumb to the magical illusion that we are perceiving the world in itself." --Will Chancellor, The Brooklyn Rail

"In their mind-bending compendium of just the nature parts from 300 novels, Comitta asks what makes narrative, what merits attention, and whether humans have any business in this literary world at all. This is the novel to read conspicuously in your garden so the plants know you're on their side. It's only a matter of time before the weeds shall inherit the earth." --Katy Simpson Smith, Electric Literature

"An immersive exhibition of nature writing. . . . [The Nature Book] pulls the reader along with gorgeous language and animal protagonists worth rooting for." --Publishers Weekly

"Here it is at last, and what a bloody relief to at last have it: The Novel Without Us. Using the suprasensory medium of the human vessel Tom Comitta, the trees and sky and earth have accessed the hyperobject or hyperartifact known as 'literature' i