The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

by Margaret Renkl

The world will always be beautiful to those who look for beauty.

The microbes in freshly turned soil stimulate serotonin production, working on the human brain the same way antidepressants do.

And those poisons don’t stay put. They end up in the air and the water. They end up in our bodies, linked to asthma, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, autism, and several cancers.