"To a child, there is nothing in the world quite so important as growing up."

"She didn’t ask why I left, because that’s a silly question. I left for the same reason all people leave home. Because…"

"In the free-for-all age before conservation, scientists were not the only ones “collecting” birds. Great numbers of b…"

"Very few works of art, however skillfully crafted, can approach the splendor of a living bird."

"Dawn was just getting serious. One of the rarely spoken advantages to being a birder are the number of sunrises you g…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"

"So I came, in time, to disbelieve the Myth of Infinite because I know, now, that the resources of a continent are mor…"

"The bird is a mouse. A frustrating, feathered mouse, no more inclined to be seen by mortal eyes than your average lep…"

"Seasickness all comes down to a complicated and not terribly well thought-out balancing mechanism call the inner ear.…"

"It’s hard to recall now that this environmental beacon was once a battlefield and that there was a time when people d…"