The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: The Southern Rockies: Colorado and Utah (Smithsonian Guides to Natural America)

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From the wildlife-filled grasslands of Colorado to Utah's caves and canyons, explore the Southern Rockies with the best guides to natural America.

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Very very good!.......2000-12-16

I seriously think this is a great book. It is the only really Syracuse tour book I know. And it has a lot of history. Buy it now!

For a local history book, it's a respectable effort........1999-11-04

As anyone who has ever tried to track down books on Syracuse's history can tell you, they are few and far between. Mostly, they look like something your 8th grade history teacher photocopied and stapled together. This is a professional effort; the description above mentions that some of the photos are of "indifferent" quaility. Obviously they had never seen previous efforts. This is a nice little book with lots of cool little remembered facts that have been buried by Syracuse's present state of dispare. If you're interested in Syracuse's history, you could do much worse. I personally like this book a lot.

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Highlights of beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome - in text & pictures.

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Ancient Cicilizations - Greece
Jane Pofahl
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This book highlights African biodiversity at all levels ranging from molecules to ecosystems. Major topics are biogeography, speciation processes, phylogenetic patterns and systematics, diversity decline and conservation, and applied biodiversity informatics. The 42 contributions are mostly on insects and vertebrates, but include botanical papers as well as more general chapters on biodiversity informatics.

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Part I (eleven chapters) of this text for graduate students provides a Survey of topological fields, while Part II (five chapters) provides a relatively more idiosyncratic account of valuation theory. No exercises but a good number of examples; appendices support the author in his intent, which ha

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Extraordinarily vivid!

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The Scouts of the Valley
Joseph A. Altsheler
Manufacturer: Dodo Press
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ASIN: 1406508217

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Henry awoke only once, and that was about half way between midnight and morning, when his senses, never still entirely, even in sleep, warned him that something was at the door. He rose cautiously upon his arm, saw a dark muzzle at the crevice, and behind it a pair of yellow, gleaming eyes. He knew at once that it was a panther, probably living in the swamp and drawn by the food.

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Extraordinarily vivid!.......2005-12-19

Exciting and thrilling, the wilderness comes alive in this exciting tale of adventure. I highly recommend it.

excellent.......2000-03-31

Another wonderful adventure of Henry Ware and his friends. The book is full of excitement and adventure from cover to cover. It's a great book to read to your kids.

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The Scouts of the Valley [EasyRead Edition]
Joseph A. Altsheler
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ASIN: 1425062245
Release Date: 2007-01-03

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An amazing adventure novel by Altsheler that is all the more interesting for its autobiographical undertones. It vividly narrates the excitement and challenges faced by young Henry Ware and his friends. The book is full of thrilling and exhilarating escapades that will keep the readers spellbound till the very end. Riveting!

The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign

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A Rollicking Good Read!

The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
Joseph A. Altsheler
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ASIN: 1426414986
Release Date: 2006-08-01

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Short excerpt: Had anyone with a discerning eye been there, to see, he would have called this youth one of the finest types of the South that rode forth so boldly to war.

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This is a continuation of "Bull Run".

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A Rollicking Good Read!.......2005-12-19

A must have for all fans of Altsheler. Just as good as Bull Run and in some ways even better!

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A good place to start.

Christopher Gist, frontier scout
Allan Powell
Manufacturer: Burd Street Press
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A good place to start........2000-06-19

I would describe this book as an overview of Christopher Gist's life. It outlined all the major events, but didn't provide alot of detail. This may not be surprising considering the relatively small number of books devoted to the subject. Overall, I think it is a solid effort, and a good place to start learning about this little-known historical figure.

Anne Bailey: Frontier Scout (Women of the Frontier)

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Anne Bailey: Frontier Scout (Women of the Frontier)
Mary R. Furbee
Manufacturer: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
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Super Anne Bailey.......2006-06-06

This Book Talks about Anne Bailey's life. This really fantastic book would tell you about Anne Bailey's fantastic poems. This book is in order and the story talk's about when Anne Bailey was a little baby. Anne Bailey was interested in the early history.
We don't know when Anne Bailey was born but we do no the year she was born which is 1742.
The most interesting thing I read in this story was Anne Bailey's fantastic poems. The best part was when she wrote " All Day she braved the forest dark, at night her bed the branches stark, Nor quailed at e'en the wolf's wild bark."
I think students and teachers should read this book because Anne Bailey's poems are so fantastic.

Arizona Highways, October 1947 (Pleasant Valley War; Collecting Spurs; Lowell Observatory) (Vol. 23, No. 10)

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Arizona Highways, October 1947 (Pleasant Valley War; Collecting Spurs; Lowell Observatory) (Vol. 23, No. 10)
Les Hegele , Leslie Gregory , and Nat McKelvey
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Boy Scout Explorers At Emerald Valley
Don Palmer
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The Boy Scout Explorers at Emerald Valley

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The Boy Scout Explorers at Emerald Valley
Don Palmer
Manufacturer: New York Cupples & Leon 1955.
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Boy Scouts In Death Valley
G. Harvey Ralphson
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Boy scouts in Death valley,
Walter Prichard Eaton
Manufacturer: W.A. Wilde company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence.

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Bach Resource.......2007-01-04

Though I've only had time to skim through portions of this book, as a Bach descendent, I find it fascinating! The information provided in this book is from actual historical sources, so it not only gives the reader an appreciation for life in Bach's time, but it actually allows one to learn about Bach on a personal level. It reveals often little known facts, such as that Bach kept his own record of his family roots. In fact, I was able to find information about my own direct ancestors in his own words. Fascinating! I've ordered copies for my relatives, as well. I was very pleased with the fact that, though this book was to arrive in "4 to 6 weeks," it arrived in half that time, and in time for the holidays. Great book for a Bach or for a music lover!

A must have and must read - contemporary documents and the view of Bach through the centuries.......2006-01-25

This book is essential for anyone wanting to understand the life and work of J. S. Bach. It provides wonderful insights about the man through his own documents and writings by those who knew and worked with him. He comes across as an amazingly hard working genius with a quick temper and absolute focus.

The book is organized according to the various aspects of Bach's life. We get a portrait of him "in outline" using various anecdotes. Then we get a section about his life from his own writings. The next section contains biographical and genealogical information about Bach and his family. The sections on Bach as viewed by his contemporaries, in Forkel's biography, in the second half of the 18th century, and in the Romantic era are all quite interesting. Given how much Bach has meant to the world (more than in life!), it is not surprising that we cannot understand him without understanding his changing reputation over the past centuries.

This new edition has more than two hundred pages of additional information than the earlier editions and makes the book that much richer an experience.

I repeat, this is a must have and a must read for any lover of music. Why be limited to what other people tell you about this composer when you can find out for yourself from contemporary documents?

Comprehensive collection.......2003-11-19

A wonderful collection of letters by and articles about Bach, both from his own era and afterwards.

Some of his letters have even been set to music! Amazon also has available Peter Schickele's [a k a PDQ Bach] "1712 Overture and other Musical Assaults" which includes his parody on Copland's Lincoln Portrait, in which, instead of reciting The Gettysburg Address, he reads 2 of Bach's many letters complaining about his lack of money.

These are among the best known of Bach's letters, and are a fairly good indication of the general tone of many of his letters.

In one letter he complains to a relative that the cask of wine he had sent was half empty by the time it arrived, and that he had had to pay so many taxes as it passed through various districts of Germany that receiving it was rather expensive!

He concludes by saying something like "Please don't send me any more gifts ... I can't afford it!"

In the second letter, he writes warmly of his very musical family, but also whinges about his pay being less than he expected. He says that he had been promised a certain amount of money per funeral, but unfortunately the winter was so mild very few people died!

Highly recommended for lovers of Bach.

A superb introduction to Bach (and very entertaining).......1999-11-17

This is a wonderfully well arranged collection of letters, testimonials, court records and other contemporary documents by and relating to Johann Sebastian Bach. The editors have selected items which paint a picture of a man who knew his own worth, (he argues for, and gets, a higher salary than his predecessors in most of his jobs)didn't tolerate fools gladly, and who had exactly the same problems church musicians today face.

Incidentally, it made me laugh frequently. Some of his testimonials for former students show him damning with faint praise. His argument over who should appoint school prefects leaves you wondering who was lying. And his begging letters to his employers are masterpieces of not-very-obsequious charm.

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Enter the world of Johann Sebastian Bach through this illuminating collection of readings. The New Bach Reader reveals the life and career of Bach through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records relating to his personal and professional life. The original Bach Reader, edited by the late Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel in 1945, established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff of Harvard University has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items. Taken together, the readings in this volume provide music lovers with a fascinating, almost firsthand account of the composer and his environment.

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THE SUPREME BACH in his own words and thoughts!.......2000-08-10

All worshippers of JS Bach need to acquire this informative and satisfying journal dedicated to the absolutely most profoundly sublime genious in all of music. If having all of Bach's masterworks in your CD collection wasn't enough...you need to add this book for further intellectual stimulation because here Bach is presented in his OWN WORDS! Every example of written coorespondence by Bach and his contemporaries concerning him has been preserved and translated from the hand of Bach's penmanship and presented to the reader. As a result, we can glimpse into another facet of the mind behind the music. Although most of the letters were written to either one offical or another (and therefore embellished with the standard nomenclatures of the time), I was able to detect exasperation, sarcasm, fearlessness, austerity, humor, ridicule and sorrow in much of them. In the vast majority of the wordy, complex style of his coorespondence we begin to see that Bach composed his complaints in much the same vein he composed fugues; lavish phrases, requests and expostulations are intertwined in the most respectful manner to his superiors...and simultaneuosly he projects an attitude that if his needs are not met he will resort to higher means...usually meaning petitioning the King himself (which on one occasion he ultimately did!) His complaints ranged from objectional wages, unruly choirboys, the relegations of authority, and his delinquent son (in which the debtors were now pestoring Bach to compensate). It is true that not many personal references by Bach have come down to us, but there are a few morsels for us to dwell on; his declining a gift from a cousin stating that the tax required was much to high for the parcel itself, he mentions with regret a flask of wine that broke open (accidentally?) while on route in the mail and spilled out, and how not too many people were dying...so unfortunately he wasnt making out too well on funeral music composition. We begin to see that apart from his unsurpassable genious and intellect, he was very much a normal person...even a bit dull. He certainly had a dry sense of humor and had absolutely zero tolerance for people he thought were using him...and for those he thought were not taking him seriously. The is one instance where he got into a street fight at the marketplace, another instance where he was reprimanded for introducing "strange sounds and alterations in the harmonic structure" during mass at the organ (the buddings of his genious). He was interrogated for bringing a "strange maiden" up to the organ loft with him. He even spent some time in jail for being too stubborn when his leave was denied (he was looking for better work and his employers refused to let him go). He was reprimanded for overstaying leave time on another occasion (by like 2 months!) hanging out in Lubeck to see Buxtehude play. He had no qualms whatsoever in disqualifying students from his instruction if they showed any from of recalcitrance or inept musical talent. Buy this book! You can read all about these things and more from the REAL letters! There is plenty of praise and accolades to go along with it, both by his contemporaries and posthumurous composers. Read about Mendelsohn's debut of the St Matthew's Passion (100 years after Bach performed it last) written by the tenor who sang Christ's lines in the score during that performance! Look at the replicated facsimilies of Bach's letters in his own hand! The book is full of paintings of Bach...in all stages of his career. Read his letters and get some insight into the turmoil and altercations, of the humor and sarcasm of the greatest genious of music this world has ever known. His music is immortal and nothing can even come close; not even the greatest works of Mozart or Beethoven can overshadow the universal sublimity and unsurpassed ecstasy the world can find the the music of the Almighty Johann Sebastian Bach.

What an incredible resource.......2000-04-28

I have been studying this book for the last 2 months. The amount of information that is in this book, and not many others, is incredible. Actual letters from JS Bach showing how he feels. Descriptions of performances that were only available from PhD's in the past are available to you in this publication.

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Title: The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents.(Review)
Author: Edward McIrvine
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 55 Issue: 4 Page: 893(2)

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Until recently, women in the Red Army have only been a small part of the history of the Long March

Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March

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Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March
Helen Praeger Young
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"The Paul Revere of globalization's woes."-The New York Times, on the author

As the United States makes much of its desire to globalize democracy, in 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank's updated 2nd edition, Dr. Danaher finds democracy ill-equipped for globalization. Suggesting a radical regime change, Danaher powerfully shows the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the WTO and World Bank and its unelected global government. This regime, he argues, is beyond reform.

Global Exchange cofounder Kevin Danaher is among globalization's leading critics. His articles appear in a variety of magazines and top daily papers.

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Bad for the U. S. .......2007-09-25

Whatever the content of the book, the title agrees with my assertions in my book In the Presence of Our Enemies in which I cover the origins of the Unholy Three, basically created by Harry Dexter White, Soviet agent planted in the U.S. Treasury and John Maynard Keynes, neither of whom had the welfare of the U.S. on their minds at Bretton Woods. Their only differences appeared to be how much gold to leech out of the U.S. to start the agency, $5 billion or $25 billion! These agencies operate without restriction, the employees ride high wide and handsome, travelling at whim in a manner no U.S. employee would be free to do, while the record shows 70% of the projects undertaken end in failure. (ASIN Ellen McClay, In the Presence of Our Enemies)

Compact and straightforward.......2007-02-21

This booklet says more in 100 pages than Jagdish Bhagwati's in Defense of Globalization says in 300. Even though I don't agree with what K.MacDonald said here that it is a condemnation of free trade and capitalism, the author does have a very left-wing view of the world and sometimes makes false connections between open trade and globalization...

But as a globalization noob's short guide to IMF and World bank and as a source to discuss about these subjects with your friends/whatever, this book is quite invaluable. It's concise and clear about the underlying motives of the institutions and people in charge of them, and, most of the time, presents information which seems to be correct.

no title.......2006-02-04

I basically agree with most everything propounded in this little book - I just am not sure it's so simple. Jobs are created by demand.

Completely wrong on all 10 reasons.......2004-09-17

Anyone who is looking for an economic analysis on why the IMF and World Bank (something that should be done rigorously) should be abolished should look elsewhere. This book is not a condemnation of the IMF and the World Bank, but a condemnation of free trade and capitalism.

He talks about how markets create inequality. My response to that is: so what? People by their very nature are unequal, with skills that are in various states of demand. It is not surprising that an electrical engineer is more valuable, thus gets paid more than and cashier and that a CEO gets paid more than an electrical engineer. The more scarce and in demand (i.e., valuable) your skills are the more you will get paid. Another example is the following: Suppose John makes $20/hr and Jason makes $15/hr, then at the end of the year John gets a 10% raise and Jason get a 5% raise. The inequality between the two have increased, BUT they are both better off because they each make more. Even more importantly, though, is that countries that evolved using markets (the West) have far less economic inequality than countries using so called "planned" economies, i.e., markets do NOT increase inequality, but centrally planned economies do.

He then talks about how businesses will deplete any and all resources in the name of the bottom line, using the logging industry as an example. No industry is so foolish and short sighted. The logging industry knows that if it cuts down every last tree, then it will no longer be in business, so they take steps to avoid this. They modify trees to grow faster, plant a tree for every one they cut down, and rotate through different patches, coming back to the same patch of trees when they are matured, thus they are able to produce on a finite amount of space, without having to expand. The faster a tree can grow the less space is needed to get the same amount of logging. In fact, forest coverage over the world has increased over that last 80 years. Not only is this push for efficiency (doing more with less) true for the logging industry, but is true for all industries. And as technology improves, so does the environment.

Outrageously, he says that the average worker in developed countries are worse off due to free trade. Any check on the facts shows this to be clearly false. Todays average citizen in any developed nation has so much wealth as to be incomprehensible to anyone who lived 100 years ago. In fact, we live in a time of such abundance that even those who can afford cell phones, cars, microwaves, refridgerators, cable TV, etc. are considered to live in poverty.

Another of his 'reasons' on the fallacy of free trade is that none of the developed countries developed in the absence of government intervention. While this is true, what he ignores is that the developed countries developed in an economic atmosphere of substantially less government intervention than in the past. In all of economic history, all around the world, governments have controlled and directed the economy. But most technological and commercial advances took place when governments were weak. As a result, the idea of personal liberty was established during the Enlightenment period. When this took place, the economies of the Western world exploded, giving them the capital to explore and develop. This is the primary reason for the dominance of the West.

Another idea about the evils of capitalism and free trade is downsizing. Companies downsize because they can do more with less. The agricultural revolution means that 1 or 2 people can create enough food for 98 or 99 people. This frees up the 98 or 99 people to do other things besides worry about where they are going to get their next meal. Today, the manufacturing sector in America produces 95% more than it did in 1970, with only 75% of the people in manufacturing during the 1970s. This means that productivity per worker increased by more than a factor of 2. When this occurs companies will naturally lay off workers. Instead of viewing this as an evil, it should be viewed as what it actually is: allowing labor to go where it is most needed. Due to the efficiency of agriculture people were free to work on other things (creating the division of labor), like manufacturing, and creating newer and better services, instead of toiling away on the farm.

I can't remember all of his 'reasons' since I wasn't foolish enough to buy this book, but all of his other 'reasons' are just as weak in fact and logic. Don't buy this book. All but 2 or 3 sentences are wrong.

How America Screws the Rest of the World.......2003-03-01

The American public is unaware about how the U.S. government conducts its foreign policy through the IMF and World Bank. The U.S. media has failed to explain to the American public how exactly the World Bank and IMF operate to economically control thrid-world countries. These two organizations actually promote the economic colonization of the third-world. Programs like CNN Pinnacle with Willow Bay provide misleading portrayals of World Bank leaders (i.e. JAMES WOLFENSOHN, PRESIDENT, WORLD BANK). This book fills the gap left by the news media. A very interesting and short read!

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"In common things are greater extensions of ourselves than we ever conceived of."

"Life on earth springs from a collateral magic that we rarely consult," observes John Hay, naturalist, essayist, sage, and inveterate walker of byways. This collection from the 50-year long career of America's preeminent nature writer illustrates the full range of Hay's work. An elegant and lyrical stylist, he is, in Merrill's words, "the nature writer's writer, an illustrator of the Emersonian notion that 'the world is emblematic.'"

And so Hay reveals the ubiquitous but often unnoticed emblems all around us. The mad, impossible rush of alewives flinging themselves upstream to mate, for example, represents "the drive to be, a common and terrible sending out, to which men are also bound in helplessness." In the migratory movements of the terns and the green turtles past his beloved Cape Cod Hay sees the mystery and magnificence of homing: "To know your direction and return through outer signs, is as new as it is ancient. We are still people of the planet, with all its original directions waiting in our being." Whether describing the rugosa or bayberry of a sand dune, the plight of stranded pilot whales, or a spider swinging on its gossamer, Hay encourages us to enlarge our inner universe by observing, appreciating, and preserving the outer one we so often ignore. As a result, he says, "we may find that we are being led onto traveled ways that were once invisible to us," and by recognizing our "deep alliance with natural forces we find a new depth in ourselves. This is the common ground for all living things."

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A John Hay "Greatest Hits".......2002-10-15

If you're unfamiliar with this naturalist's writings, then you're in luck. This sampler contains essays from nine of his books, from _The Run_ (1959) to _In the Company of Light_ (1998), as well as several of Hay's poems and his John Burroughs Medal acceptance address. Here you will follow and see along with him as if on the same trail, gleaning tidbits of natural science in the process. Shorelines and wetlands are the main areas featured -- mostly in New England, and often in Cape Cod -- though a few forays take us to Florida and to the rainforest of Costa Rica. Read Hay's insights into the intricacies of salt-water habitats, and you're apt to see more the next time you go beach-combing yourself -- from the smallest creatures in the water to the larger ones winging above you. Here you will also run across Hay's astute environmental observations and admonishments:

"Every life that touches on another, or becomes a part of another, keeps the earth's fluidity in being." ("Homing," from _The Undiscovered Country_)

"We ought to be tuning up to what is around us, but our own static is too loud." ("Listening," from _The Undiscovered Country_)

"At times I think that all the plants, birds, fish, and every other living organism are waiting for our departure so that they can resume timeless engagement with the earth." ("Fire in the Plants," from _A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen_)

This smorgasbord is a nice addition to any nature-lover's bookshelf and could inspire the reader to search out one or more of the featured titles to delve deeper into John Hay's work.

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