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A Year in the Maine Woods
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A Year In The Maine Woods
"Quirky, unassuming, humorous, enlightening, and just a little bizarre" (Washington Post Book World), Heinrich's chronicle of his year spent alone--except for his pet raven--in a cabin with no running water or electricity in the Maine woods brings readers back to the drama in small things, when life is lived consciously.
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Heinrich rediscovers the meaning of days spent not filling out forms, but tracking deer, or listening to the sound of a moth’s wing.
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A Year in the Maine Woods Heinrich, Bernd
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From cutting logs to building a cabin to tracking deer; and night where the sound of a moth's wings seems utterly important, this is an exploration into the meaning of peace and quiet, and harmony with nature from "one of America's outstanding naturalists"--Stephen Jay Gould. The author spends a year alone and isolated, without electricity or telecommunications and with no company but his pet raven, Jack. It is a year in which he found that the "subtle matters, and the spectacular distracts. "A rediscovery...
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Now, a sparrow, even a song sparrow, can live a mighty long time in a grocery store. Years, I’d guess, if the management doesn’t decide to do it in as a health hazard. It’s got everything it needs, except, of course, freedom, a decent habitat, a mate, and other sparrows to hang out with. It can nibble the fresh kale and lettuce, peck the apples and grapes, scrounge for spilled seed in the pet and wild-bird sections. It can drink and even bathe in the automatic mist hissing down on the salad...
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