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Just three weeks ago, I was taking much pride in my yard’s popularity. Over thirty species of birds had been spending at least part of the fall and winter in my yard. I kept track of their IDs. The birds sang their many versions of courtship songs. As I walked up the front steps, I was serenaded by the orchestra of life. But then the birds abandone
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She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel


Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Women, always the women. Thank goodness for the women.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey

The Golden Guide to Pond Life,