Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

A Texan wholly devoted to his native Southwest, he was regional but not provincial.... Roy Bedichek was a true scientist, with a luminous curiosity more like the ancient Greeks' than today's. Audubon

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Whether studying the effects of grazing goats on roadside wildflowers or reveling in the fiery beauty of a vermilion flycatcher, Bedichek writes with a marvelous style that begs quotation at every turn. Houston Chronicle

A book that should be required reading in high school or college, one that ought to be in every deer camp or in every biker's pack. It is a thoughtful book but also pleasant to the senses. It is a book that can be read once and then delved into again some other time, as enduring as nature itself. Austin American-Statesman

You may not know the little birds from the little flowers and not even care to, but
still you will find in Adventures with a Texas Naturalist a ripe mind seeing in all
relationships the human significance.... His prose is modest and seemingly without art. And
then you discover that this man who paid profound attention to everything writes like an
angel. Lon Tinkle

I wish some such book opening windows on the ground I belong to and arousing healthy
curiosity about all things both great and small had been available when I, as a boy, always
got books—good books—for Christmas. It is the kind of book that enlarges experience whether
remembered or yet to come. It is a book to open eyes. J. Frank Dobie