The New York Times Book Review
"Payne offers the opportunity for a rare experience and awakening that will change our view of ourselves, elephants, and all living things."

The San Fransico Chronicle.
"A fascinating, charming and insightful book, filled with adventure, anecdote, scientific discovery and insights."

London Times
"What Diane Fossey did for the mountain gorillas, or Joy Adamson for the lion, Payne does for the elephant. She helps to build a healing line of communication between man and beast."

The Globe and Mail
"This book tells an important story of a human being vibrant with perceptions of the natural and human world. It describes on ongoing engagment with what it means to be to be fully alive - intelligent, sensitive, observing,spiritual - in the presence of elephants, and in the presence of Katy Payne."

Scientific American
"The living presence of elephants is both the root and the ripest fruit of this wonderful book."

The Seattle Times
"Fascinating."

Kirkus Reviews
"An account that is finally a philosophical and political meditation on wildlife."

Publishers Weekly
"This book will make a wonderful addition to the library of any animal lover or of anyone fascinated by intra- and interspecies communication."

Ithaca Times
"Her descriptions of the fieldwork with elephants is fabulous. We discover truths about elephants along with Payne."

Booklist
"A candid and sobering discussion of our species' perverse relationship with the rest of nature."

Audubon
"Unusually probing."

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