woods

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Most of my time, sleeping and waking, has been spent outside, in close contact with what we now call the environment, what my uncles used to call, simply, “the woods.”

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Perhaps the greatest paradox about understanding “the woods” is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it, spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.

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In all my time in the woods, in the wondrous dance of it, I have many times seen predators fail.

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I thought I had great knowledge of how everything in the woods worked.

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And with that thought, with that small understanding, came the desire to learn, to know more not just about wolves but about all things in the woods.

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