A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

by Jonathan Meiburg

It is true that we are eminently adaptive, that we have created, and exist in some sort of harmony with new conditions…but the old harmony was infinitely more perfect than the new, and if there be such a thing as a historical memory in us, it is not strange that the sweetest moment in any life, pleasant or dreary, should be when Nature draws near to it, and, taking up her neglected instrument, plays a fragment of some ancient melody, long unheard on the earth.