Temple Stream

There is poetry in Bill Roorbach's prose...his lyricism touched lightly with irony. * Boston Globe *
Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical description and wry humor, his writing draws you out of your chair and into a world of streams and meadows and trees and bugs and beavers. And it makes you want to stay there. * The Seattle Times *
There are other autobiographical books about Maine, but Roorbach's writing is so compelling, his eye for the human condition so keen, that this is in a class of its own. * Library Journal, Starred Review *
A celebration of life...deft and evocative, making small adventures loom large. * Kirkus *
With a voice as pure and true as the stream itself, Roorbach limns a lyrical yet precise portrait of the life teeming along one deceptively simple yet richly essential part of the natural world. * Booklist *
You'll be homesick for a place you've never visited. * Playboy *
While genuine in his appreciation of Nature, Roorbach is the antithesis of the smug and self-absorbed Naturalist...Temple Stream is a moving book: thoughtful, precise, about much more than flora. * The Believer *