![]() Roberta Moore, co-editor of Wild Nevada “Paul Bogard brings attention to what we have lost, how our night skies are fading and growing dimmer over time, and how we can strive to protect our starry nights.” Ruskin Hartley, International Dark-Sky Association To Know a Starry Night is a beautiful testament to the night and will inspire readers around the world with a new-or renewed-desire to have this experience as their own.” While there are many vital reasons to reduce and control the use of artificial light at night-the waste of money and energy, the needless carbon emissions, the impacts on human and environmental health-it's this loss of the night sky experience that, in the end, inspires us to our work. “Paul Bogard is a friend to International Dark-Sky Association and to the cause of protecting dark skies around the world. Christopher Cokinos, author of Hope Is the Thing with Feathers and The Fallen Sky ![]() “Paul Bogard is the unofficial poet laureate of dark skies. “More than the lyricism of Bogard’s prose and the beauty of Rogers’ photography, the book can be taken as a wakeup call to get out there and be alone with the night-if we can find one without the neighbor’s spotlights.” As the night sky increasingly becomes flooded with artificial-light pollution, this poignant work helps us reconnect with the natural darkness of night, an experience that now, in our time, is fading from our lives. ![]() But how many of us have taken the time to truly know a starry night? To really know it.Ĭombining the lyrical writing of Paul Bogard with the stunning night-sky photography of Beau Rogers, To Know a Starry Night explores the powerful experience of being outside under a natural starry sky\-how important it is to human life, and how so many people don’t know this experience. The darkness is a reminder of the ebb and flow, of an opportunity to recharge, of the movement of time. No matter where we live, what language we speak, or what culture shapes our worldview, there is always the night. Over the course of time, continents have formed and eroded, sea levels have risen and fallen, the chemistry of our atmosphere has changed, and yet the daily cycle of light to dark has remained pretty much the same. For millennia, the night sky has been a collective canvas for our stories, maps, traditions, beliefs, and discoveries. “Against a backdrop rich with purples, blues, and shades of black, a blaze of stars glittering across a vast empty sky spurs our curiosity about the past, driving us inevitably to ponder the future.
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