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things of grandeur are worth saving, and will understand and appreciate 
what the late President John F. Kennedy said: “The standard of living we 
enjoy, greater than any other nation in history, is attributable in large 
measure to the wide variety and rich abundance of this country’s physical 
resources. But these resources are not inexhaustible ... nor do they auto- 
matically replenish themselves.” 
With phrases such as these, you can understand the gentleness of this 
book: “It is lumber ... when the fish hawk in the spring revisits the 
banks of the Musatequid, he will circle in vain to find his accustomed 
perch ... The squirrel has leaped to another tree; the hawk has circled 
farther off, and has now settled upon a new eyrie, but the woodman is 
preparing to lay his axe to the root of that also.” 
This is but one phrase that for decades has stirred men to fight for 
the “wild.” The book gives you many more reasons to continue this 
effort. Read this book and you will wander with Thoreau along dancing 
streams, catch the brillance of a setting sunset, watch the antics of a young 
beaver building his home, and perhaps you will almost smell the early 
spring violets of a mountain pasture. This book is not to be read as a 
novel, for you will want to return to many of its pages again and again. 
—Sally M. Grecc, 2445 W. Erie St., Chicago 
Peoria’s Audubon group set up this exhibit on hawks and owls at the 
city’s Lakeview Center last monih. Ed Billings (left), president of the 
society, and Bill Stroud, the treasurer, tended the display. 
