[CT Birds] about bird listers -

[Carrier Graphics]

    Just recently began rereading the works of Rachel Carson, and came across this writing that might be of interest to us listers. I know it talked to me personally . . .

From “The Sense of Wonder.”

    “I think the value of the game of identification depends on how you play it. if it becomes an end in itself I count it of little use. It is possible to compile extensive lists of creatures seen and identified without ever once having caught a breath-taking glimpse of the wonder of life.  If a child asked me a question that suggests even a faint awareness of the mystery behind the arrival of a migrant sandpiper on the beach of an August morning, I would be far more pleased then by the mere fact that he knew it was a sandpiper and not a plover . . . 
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. . . . There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”

neat - 
Paul Carrier