National Whooping Crane Day

“High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness…A new day has begun on the crane marsh.  A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place…Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.  It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” -Aldo Leopold