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FOREWORD BY COYOTE PETERSON
|ere’s an indescribable mysteriousness in the wild, and if you’ve spent
enough time out there, you know exactly what I mean.
Layered with tracks of natural sounds like wings cutting air, insects pulsing
in rhythm, distant calls of avian, and mammalian species echoing through
the forest canopy, she draws you in like the hypnotic call of a siren. |e
mystery isn’t scary; yet to even a well-trained adventurer, it evokes a thrill
that makes one’s heart race just a bit faster. I live for that thrill because
while the wild can engulf you in a multitude of ways that challenge a
human’s level of comfort, what the wild does best is consume modern
tecÝological distraction. When you allow yourself to be swallowed in
nature, you stop thinking about schedules, bank accounts, emails, and the
pending problems of a rat race you can’t immediately solve. Instead, you
feel fully present in what’s happening right here. Right now. In the very
moment you are about to live.
When you stop and take a deep breath, you realize that the wild makes
you present.
|roughout my career as a wildlife presenter and educator, I’ve been
lucky enough to have some truly
