An informative and sensitively written series of life cycles for the student or devotee of natural history, in twenty life records of lesser and less known inhabitants of the non-human world, -- the tree, the weasel, the turtle, the fox, the may-fly, the woodchuck, the frog, and so on and so on. Less philosophical, less spiritual than his Down To Earth (Coward, McCann), it is still a book which makes a small bid for the interest of the Peattie market, and for those who find reassurance in nature.