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Ann Haymond Zwinger (1925–2014) was the author of many natural histories noted for detail and lyrical prose.

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The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.

Browse, Fall, Nature, Shoots, Spring, Squirrels

I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May. . . But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.

Against, Believe, Journey, Soft, Spring, Triumph

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Alacrity, Counts, Cuts, Cutting, Engineering, Fall

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

Growing, Growing Up, Hear, Probably, River, Rivers

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds. . . flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

Acceptance, Buds, Flower, Mechanism, Survival

There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered.

Birdseed, Eating, Long, Moss, Nature, November

Flies are the price we pay for summer.

Insects, Pay, Price, Summer

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