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concise (and highly readable) accounts of such subjects as “Aerialists — Swifts and Swallows.” The section on owls is excellent. I just read it in preparation for an article I am writing. I find I am using this volume more and more.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,” wrote Aldo Leopold in the foreword to his “Sand County Almanac.” He continued, “These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” And what fine essays they are! Leopold was a master of prose; his writing is beautiful, along with being informative and a comfort to the senses.
In one essay, “Great Possessions,” Leopold describes the joys of going out at dawn on a summer day with his dog as a companion to hear, see, and smell the natural world from not only his (Leopold’s) viewpoint, but his dog’s as well. This book, available in many editions, is before me on my desk, as is the next.
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