Amanda Scott

But learning to coordinate our time with nature's rhythms could revolutionise our politics.

I've cut several bits out of that.

The full quote is early on in the podcast.

What you need to know now is that this is a genuinely groundbreaking, mind-opening book, and I cannot imagine better reading as we step into 2026.

And if you need to know that I'm not alone in thinking this, it's been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing,

and the Soltar Award, which is Scotland's national book awards for non-fiction.

For the New Scientist and Waterstones Bookshop, it was the best popular science book of 2025.

It's beautifully written, fantastically researched, you will learn new things on absolutely every page, and it's a masterclass in bringing together Western thought,

with indigenous knowing, the awe and the wonder and the creativity of some of the things that we can do, together with the horror of what we have done, and the capacity of indigenous peoples to view things differently, and perhaps to offer a way out of this mess.

So I genuinely recommend that you read this book.

And in the meantime...

that you enjoy a conversation that left me buzzing long after we stopped recording.

So people of the podcast, stepping into 2026, please welcome Professor David Farrier, author of Nature's Genius, Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet.

David Farrier, welcome to the Accidental Gods podcast.

How are you and where are you as we close to the end of the year and we're jettisoning this out into January so people will hear it in the new year.

So tell us how you are.

Brilliant.

Yes, the looks within time of just let's just settle and see where we are and where we might need to go.

And this is the year we have published your book.

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