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"We have nighthawks and mud daubers. We have small desert bats and scowling great horned owls. But on this visit, we had my favorite: barn owls."

"The fact that we planted a garden in the fire strip said a lot about our relationship to the threat of fire: it was the new normal in the west."

"I feel the ever-present tension of loving and leaving places, of trying to straddle two worlds: nature and concrete, republicans and democrats, agriculture and academic culture."

"Right now, cutthroat trout are wavering with the water, the glimmer-scales of them threading the shadows beneath a log.'"