Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence is a thoughtful and wise entreaty for a new ethic to guide our relationship to other animals and natural landscapes. The author, animal activist and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Marc Bekoff borrows a term from wildlife conservation when he calls for a "rewilding" of our human attitudes. Instead of restoring habitats and creating corridors between wild spaces to help animal populations recover, Bekoff proposes that we need to dissolve the barriers we have erected between ourselves and nature letting the wonder we were born with reinstate itself. Seeding our imagination with stories of kinship and kindness, he says, will let each of us reclaim our compassionate, empathic, and moral nature. Bekoff's appeal is at once his unswerving dedication to the animals he loves and his relentless unmasking of the injustices still being perpetuated in the world--like the emphasis in nature documentaries on sex and violence instead of the friendships and community life of a species. He also acknowledges the complexity of the problems we have created by putting ourselves above nature and the unlikely possibility of a world where everyone can feel or acknowledge our deep connection to other animals. Still, this book is about the present and the future and the importance of a single individual's rewilding of self. Never underestimate the power of one to make a difference.