The Greatest Nature Essay Ever —by Brian Doyle

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The Greatest Nature Essay Ever —by Brian Doyle

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This is a short little essay. I thought it was wonderful. Here's the first paragraph.
. . . WOULD BEGIN WITH an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop riffling through the rest of the mail, take your jacket off, sit down at the table, adjust your spectacles, tell the dog to lie down, tell the kids to make their own sandwiches for heavenssake, that’s why god gave you hands, and read straight through the piece, marveling that you had indeed seen or smelled or heard exactly that, but never quite articulated it that way, or seen or heard it articulated that way, and you think, man, this is why I read nature essays, to be startled and moved like that, wow.
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever —by Brian Doyle

https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-g ... ssay-ever/


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