Exploration 18 | Journey in Place | Patient Observation
Not helicopter science
The naturalist accomplishes a great deal by patience, more perhaps than by activity. He must take his position, and then wait and watch. It is equally true of quadrupeds and reptiles. Sit still in the midst of their haunts.
H.D. Thoreau, from his Journals, April 15, 1858
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