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“On a winter’s day when a person’s spirits may be low and to behold thirty to one-hundred Evening Grosbeaks busily gorging themselves on bird seed and perched in a stand of pines with all of them creating a cacophony of sparrow like chirps, this is real therapy for me. It is an act of contagious optimism. It is at such times I realize that a bird can do more for me than a shrink.”

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Book:TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
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“While I lingered about the old village and the lake, with the water lapping on the shore and the wind whispering in the big pines, I felt for a moment that I was back in time among the Ojibwe families going about their business.”

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Book:TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
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