A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm Author:Edwin Way Teale This is the story of a man, a woman and the land. The man and woman are famed naturalist Edwin Way Teale and his wife. The land is the old Connecticut farm they bought not to exploit, but to enjoy, not to alter, but to experience in all its richness of plant and animal life amid the shifting splendors of the seasons. — Here is a book to help us r... more »ediscover nature and our place in it. Here is an escape not from reality but into an ultimate reality. Here is an awakening from the slumber of the senses that we call civilization -- a miracle of vision as fresh and sparkling as an ever-cleansing stream. Here is an unforgettable triumph to make us rejoice the whole year long.« less