Roorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.

– Jay Parini, author of The Last Station

Here is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers,

– Melanie Rae Thon, author of "First, Body"

Roorbach has a knack for tapping into deep undercurrents and bringing them to the surface with the least amount of fanfare or fuss.

– Los Angeles Times

There is poetry in Bill Roorbach's prose...his lyricism touched lightly with irony.

– The 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 Reviews

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