The Voice of the Infinite in the Small: Reimaging the Human-Insect Connection

I am going to buy this book for every animal lover on my Christmas list! It changes your mind and heart about insects and spiders without preaching or giving you a bunch of boring scientific facts. It could have been called "Insect Angels" like the Animal Animals book since its major theme of insects as messengers weaves through all the chapters. My favorite chapter was on insects in dreams because the author explains how even frightening dreams can have a positive message that can help you. I'll never look at an insect in the same way after reading this book.

The Voice Of The Infinite In The Small: Re-Visioning The Insect-Human Connection by writer and environmental educator Joanne Elizabeth Lauck is an inspirational collection of thoughts about what people can learn from observing some of the smallest of Earth's creatures -- the insects. Personal anecdotes, little snippets of wisdom, and insightful metaphors for fate of humankind abound throughout the pages of this meaningful and very highly recommended philosophical examination of nature and the natural environment.

The Voice of the Infinite in the Small has opened up vast new understandings in my mind and psyche, about the beauty, dignity and yes, the sacred nature of the Insect Kingdom. Joanne Lauck holds a mirror up to the unnatural aversion, the hatred, and the venomous attacks by human culture on that which it cannot manipulate and control. She reveals how afraid we have become of a genuine give and take with our fellow species and with natural systems in general. This is the life threatening Crisis of our time. Lauck also points out with tremendous richness of reference, from Aboriginal myth to current expressions of the New Sciences, how the insect kingdom can reflect and communicate the Natural Intelligence that pervades all- if encountered with CLEAR, RESPECTFUL INTENT. This book is amazingly detailed and thorough. It is an example of a powerful intellect placed in the service of wholeness and the original, natural self we are longing to recover for our human survival and ultimate success. I could feel the peace surround me and the love rush in when absorbing these ideas. May this book be circulated, appreciated, amplified throughout the world! It is powerful medicine in a dark and dangerous time.

I have just read "The Voice of the Infinite in the Small" by Joanne Lauck. This book on insects is spellbinding. How can a book on insects be spellbinding? Insects... boring, right? Wrong! Not only does Joanne write eloquently she offers surprises on every page. New ways to look at the world of insects, not from the prelearned ways of our youth. She does not bore us with scientific jargon that only an enthomoligist would love. She offers the reader with a new look at how insects live in harmony with the earth and how we interact with them. There are those of us that produce such wonderful work. Joanne has done just that here. "The Voice of the Infinite and the Small" should be required reading for every school teacher/educator in Canada and the USA.Lily-Dawn

This wonderfully researched book is one of those books that comes along now and then that both can change your view of the world and confirm intuitions that had been buried. Respect and compassion toward all living things is makes the world a better place and us better people. Such compassion thus fulfills two of the major responsibilities of every human being on earth. I love Ms. Lauck for the vision, courage, and compassion which made it possible for her to write this book, which is destined to become a classic. Whether it becomes a best-seller or simply a perennial underground classic (like the One Straw Revolution) I cannot predict. But "The Voice of the Infinite in the Small" is going to be around for many years - until its message becomes apparent to us in the Western world.