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Pyle looks past the stumps and clear cuts to rediscover the essence of the Willapa Hills. Even though scarred from decades of logging this terrain is still a wilderness. The author puts the pieces together to create an example of nature trying to survive. -Krist Novoselic, former bassist of Nirvana Pyle shows himself here to be a cunning essayist who is able to bring to life a region little known ... a love song to an overlooked--and overworked--land. Kirkus 1/5/87 Pyle has created a collection of vividly responsive observations and speculations about the diversity and requirements of life, from butterflies to bears Library Journal 2/1/87 Not just a classic of Northwest nature writing and literature, Wintergreen is a book that transcends the wounded Willapa Hills where it is set and becomes a meditation on the relationship of all people to all places. --William Dietrich

""Pyle looks past the stumps and clear cuts to rediscover the essence of the Willapa Hills. Even though scarred from decades of logging this terrain is still a wilderness. The author puts the pieces together to create an example of nature trying to survive.""-Krist Novoselic, former bassist of Nirvana ""Pyle shows himself here to be a cunning essayist who is able to bring to life a region little known ... a love song to an overlooked--and overworked--land."" Kirkus 1/5/87 ""Pyle has created a collection of vividly responsive observations and speculations about the diversity and requirements of life, from butterflies to bears"" Library Journal 2/1/87 Not just a classic of Northwest nature writing and literature, Wintergreen is a book that transcends the wounded Willapa Hills where it is set and becomes a meditation on the relationship of all people to all places. --William Dietrich

Pyle shows himself here to be a cunning essayist who is able to bring to life a region little known ... a love song to an overlooked--and overworked--land. Kirkus 1/5/87 Pyle has created a collection of vividly responsive observations and speculations about the diversity and requirements of life, from butterflies to bears Library Journal 2/1/87 Not just a classic of Northwest nature writing and literature, Wintergreen is a book that transcends the wounded Willapa Hills where it is set and becomes a meditation on the relationship of all people to all places. --William Dietrich

"""Pyle looks past the stumps and clear cuts to rediscover the essence of the Willapa Hills. Even though scarred from decades of logging this terrain is still a wilderness. The author puts the pieces together to create an example of nature trying to survive.""-Krist Novoselic, former bassist of Nirvana ""Pyle shows himself here to be a cunning essayist who is able to bring to life a region little known ... a love song to an overlooked--and overworked--land."" Kirkus 1/5/87 ""Pyle has created a collection of vividly responsive observations and speculations about the diversity and requirements of life, from butterflies to bears"" Library Journal 2/1/87 Not just a classic of Northwest nature writing and literature, Wintergreen is a book that transcends the wounded Willapa Hills where it is set and becomes a meditation on the relationship of all people to all places. --William Dietrich"

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Robert Michael Pyle is the author of fourteen books, including Sky Time in Gray's River, Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal. A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim fellow, he is a full-time writer living in southwestern Washington.

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