"Smart, funny, and shot through with aching love, This Is How A Robin Drinks is both a call to action and a balm for the solastalgic heart. This profoundly beautiful, desperately necessary book will change the way you see the world and every living thing within it, including yourself." -Margaret Renkl, author of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

"Inspiring and full of wonder. These vivid stories combine curiosity, wit, and a keen sense of the many ways that exultation and heartbreak mingle when we look closely at the everyday life of our yards, parks, and cities."-- David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

"It would be hard to imagine a more delightful, engaging, and insightful introduction to urban natural history. Brichetto's love of nature is infectious, and with a little luck it will go viral and infect us all. Her laugh-out-loud wittiness draws us in for more and reminds us to hit the pause button on our hectic lives as an antidote to the day's news."--Douglas W. Tallamy, author of Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

"Joanna Brichetto loves her native planet--yes, our trashed twenty-first-century world--with passion and eloquence worthy of Walt Whitman or Annie Dillard. In her scintillating visions of urban nature, she follows a lost dragonfly through a Goodwill store, peers through a soccer game at the cicadas buzzing around it, and reports that a hummingbird's heart beats so fast its body hums in her hand--all shared with novelistic detail and poetic precision. Brichetto's love is not a warm fuzzy thing because this is not a warm fuzzy world. Her passion for nature is lusty, skeptical, disappointed, sacred, profane."--Michael Sims, author of The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond