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The Naturalist’s Art of Animal Encounters

The Art of Manliness

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How to Soften Your Gaze When Observing Wildlife

You also recommend people change the way they look or view their environment when they're out there trying to observe wildlife. And that you talk about softening your gaze. Tom Brown calls it wide angle vision. John Young calls it owl eyes. The idea is instead of just looking directly at something, which we do, we do that. That's pretty much all we really do in the modern world,. where you're say looking at a screen, looking at the road, looked at the blackboard or whatever they do.

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