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There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.

Sally Carrighar

During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times....

Sally Carrighar

Human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.

Sally Carrighar

Sally Carrighar

Sally Carrighar

Born: 1898

Died: October 9, 1985 (aged 87)

Bio: Sally Carrighar was an American naturalist and writer. She is especially known for her series of nature books chronicling the lives of wild animals. Humans are often absent from these tales.

Known for:

One Day on Beetle Rock (1944)
Icebound Summer (1953)
Moonlight at midday (1958)
One Day at Teton Marsh (1940)
Wild Voice Of The North (1959)

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