Book of the day: Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan
What it says on the back of the book: William Bryant Logan has written an elegant and thoughtful natural history of the soil that sustains us, as well as a memoir of his own highly personal connection to it. He combines science, philosophy , and history with a quircky curiosity about why the universe works the way it does. After reading Dirt you won't see the teeming life we walk on every day in quite the same way.