How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World Indonesia and of course many babblers

and of course many babblers and flycatchers

gives general information about each region of the country

In Hawaii Elepaios

Includes travel for birding in California

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World Indonesia and of course many babblersA luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist In How to Be a Living Thing, Mari