The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet

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An urgent manifesto about what it takes to hold onto memories of a livelier world. . . . Mark's devotion to getting it right is what convinces the reader to turn our own quests into art. . . . A passionate cry of resistance to bear witness to the natural world and remember its abundance.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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[A] hopeful manual for staying engaged in protecting the planet. . . . [Jason Dove Mark] provides a welcome antidote to doomsday reports.-- "Publishers Weekly"

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Remembering that we are social primates, mammals, animals living on the side of a planet; these are the crucial starting points for life to have meaning. This book helps to clarify these things; it is a kind of cognitive and emotional map.--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future

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Full of hope and wisdom, The Earth Said Remember Me is a moving guide to how recording nature's wonder and loss can help us mend the future. Jason Dove Mark makes a powerful case for why we must chronicle the fireflies that lit the woods before the fires, the sea stars that lined the beaches before the blight. Then he shows us how.--Cynthia Barnett, author of The Sound of the Sea

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This beautiful and urgent book will convince you that tending to our memories of the Earth--done together, with our hands in the dirt and our eyes lifted--is not only resistance, but a kind of joy, a hopeful and practical way of building a more sustainable tomorrow in the name of wonder.--Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders

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Jason Dove Mark reminds us that without memory, we have no imagination. First step: go outside. Then read this book and bear witness, make a record, and pass it on. This is our path forward for honoring--and recovering--our beautiful, fast-disappearing world.--Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix

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The Earth Said Remember Me is a truly lovely, thought-provoking, and above all helpful book. It's a great service to the environmental community.--Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings and Eager

Publisher Marketing:

As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this "shifting baseline syndrome," and they warn that it's why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.

In this inspiring manifesto, environmental advocate and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers antidotes that everyone can use to resist ecological amnesia and make lasting progress to repair and revive a livable planet. He puts forth four simple but powerful rules for a life lived in communion with the Earth:

Go outside
Bear witness
Make a record
Pass it on

From the mountains of California to the lakes of Wisconsin and across the lush forests of his beloved Pacific Northwest, Mark shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen who are putting these remedies into practice. And he makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us "remember the earth" and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.

Review Citations:

• Publishers Weekly 05/11/2026 (EAN 9781324117889, Hardcover)
• Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2026 (EAN 9781324117889, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:Mark, Jason Dove
Jason Dove Mark has served as editor-in-chief of Sierra and editor of Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Satellites in the High Country, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Atlantic. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.