A Loved Lover

Those once called students of Natural History are now occasionally call Environmentalists. A natural historian was interested in the study of man, his origins, his nature, and his environment. He and she was interested in the whole natural world, from the sub-microscopic to the universe at large.

Mary Austin, authoress of a little book entitled The Land of Little Rain, may be called a naturalist. I call here a love and a lover; a land lover, a language lover, and a lover of humanity. I've called her a damned good observe and a fine words smith.

Her 'little book' is about what I sometimes call my land. If you can read it and don't, you may consider yourself a damned fool.