[Lopez's] final collection of essays, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World, should remind readers just how wide-ranging, artful, and deeply personal his writing could be.

Lopez did not take the task of writing lightly.

Lopez observed the world with ardent and inquisitive concentration and shared his findings and musings in works of tensile strength, lambent beauty, and descriptive and moral precision.

An apt swan song, an ode to places both far-flung and close to home.

Memoir and nature writing come together in this lyrical collection.

Altogether, the pieces are honest and searching, engaging readers in the largest of questions: How do we live in the world? How do we see it? How do we protect it?.