NATURE

Migratory birds bind up the corners of this increasingly fragmented globe— uniting the poles and the tropics, forests and deserts, wilderness and cities. A planet that sustains them will sustain us; their fate is our fate.

–Scott Weidensaul, American naturalist and author of Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (b. 1959)

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