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A bird flits overhead. It’s an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. It’s something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how extraordinary it is. But take that in for a moment. This animal flies. It. Flies. The miracle of flight has evolved in hugely diverse ways, with countless variations of flapping and gliding, hovering and diving, murmurating and migrating.

The notion of a living world is one of humanity’s oldest beliefs. Once scorned by scientists, the facts supporting this concept have now become tenets of modern Earth system science. Life did not evolve passively in response to its environment, as scientists have long assumed. Instead, it evolved with Earth, shaping its climate and terrain at every scale. Becoming Earth transports the listener to some of the world's most extraordinary places to explore how these symbiotic relationships evolved.

In Turning to Stone, Marcia Bjornerud invites you into a geo-centric perspective, in which rocks are raconteurs, companions, mentors, oracles, and sources of solace. She dispels the notion that rocks simply are and instead helps you to see them as living entities with biographies that intersect with our own.