There was a time when I knew nothing about hares and gave them little thought. The same can be said, I have realised, of the many other aspects of life that have opened to me as a result of this experience. It has been like acquiring a new set of faculties and a greater degree of perceptiveness towards my physical environment. When I travel, I notice now not just people and places but the tracks and traces of nature that surround us always, wherever we are. And I have been reminded that we are creatures as tied to the seasons of nature as the hare, and as affected by its reverses, even if we
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