Lazy points are midday occurrences, career plateaus and moments of boredom to the average person, but if you’re Carl Safina, Lazy Point isn’t a state of mind — it’s a place where he bases his newest book.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World is based in Lazy Point, Long Island. In a year, Safina travels to the far points of the world to show what is happening between nature and people.

The book shows how nature and human dignity are increasingly reliant on one another, he said, and that human dignity cannot exist without cared-for nature and natural systems.