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In an eye-opening series of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the earth at dawn-drawing on options as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art record, poetry, organic and natural farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and discovered observer of canine and human physiology and action, she introduces us to varieties of bird music and other signs of avian cleverness, while she herself "migrates" from winter in Florida to planting season, summer, and fall season in upstate New York.Humans might luxuriate in the idea of being "in" nature, Ackerman highlights, but we often neglect that people are nature-for "no element of nature is as unlikely even as we, the small bipeds with the big dreams." Signing up for science's devotion to information with religion's appreciation of the sublime, Dawn Light can be an impassioned special event of the wonders of evolution-especially human consciousness of our own numbered days on a turning earth.
