—Eileen Crist, author of Abundant Earth  

Thirteen Paces by Four is a book at the intersection of the timeless and the timely, the global and the most intimately local. Gray’s prose powerfully illustrates how paying attention to the more-than-human world, especially in our most easily overlooked daily encounters with it, is entwined with cultivating an ethical relationship with that world. Written with an understated sophistication, the book’s portraits of the wild in even the most seemingly tame environs sketch valuable and edifying points of contact between ecological principle and practice.

—Luke Philip Plotica, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech

With Thirteen Paces by Four, Joe Gray has written a new classic of ecological literature. I take my organic cotton hat off to him

—Patrick Curry, Editor-in-Chief of The Ecological Citizen