Wednesday, October 05, 2011
The Business of a Man
Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist (1941; rpt. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986), pp. 252-253:
John James Audubon, Water Ouzels
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Be it set down, to my folly if you will, that in a world racked with war and worm-eaten with despair, I could somehow take an entire day and devote it to the doings of two dippers, and the dance of one slender cascade. I do not know how to justify my way of life, any more than I know how long it can continue. I can only say that this too is reality; this too is truth, this also is the business of a man, and its own wage.
