Wirth, Jason M., Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017, xxvi + 147 pages William Edelglass 1,2 Accepted: 1 September 2020/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2020 I read Gary Snyder’s The Practice of the Wild in my early twenties, sharing passages with friends, feeling the stirrings in my heart for a life with more attention, wildness, and connection to place. Snyder’s text was also my introduction to Dōgen 道元, whose writings have influenced me as a teacher and scholar. Jason M. Wirth’s Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis, is one of those rare books by a scholar that challenges and provokes me in ways similar to the works it explores. As when I read Snyder and Dōgen, reading Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth I found myself pausing, allowing space for the words and images to do their work. Perhaps this is because, as Wirth makes clear, his text is “a meditation and philosophical engagement that seeks to read, think, and practice along with both [Snyder and Dōgen] in a manner that is mindful of the place from where one reads them today. It seeks to express something of the place from which Snyder and Dōgen practice, think and write” (xiii). For Wirth, reading Snyder and Dōgen today means reading their work on mountains, rivers, and the Great Earth in a time of catastrophic loss of cultural and biological diversity, when climate change is impacting every ecosystem on earth and therefore every living being. Expressing something of the place from which Snyder and Dōgen work means that “this is also a book from and about the Dharma” (xiii). I understand Wirth to mean that this is a book grounded in his own practice. As with Dōgen and Snyder, this means a practice on the cushion, a practice of the wild, and engaging deeply with liberating truths from multiple traditions that can be practiced in our lives. Practicing affirmation of the diversity he recommends, Wirth finds sources of the Dharma in multiple Buddhist traditions, Continental philosophers, environmental phi- losophers, Indigenous traditions, poets, novelists, and visual artists. Engaging these Dao https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-020-09758-5 * William Edelglass williame@buddhistinquiry.org 1 Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, MA 01005, USA 2 Emerson College, Boston, MA 02116, USA