![]() ![]() ![]() He imagines the wooly mammoth, giant sloth, and mastodon that wandered his hill during the last ice age. ![]() Now only nature remains, although the author often couches his devotion to it in religious terms: ``Like Abraham, who made a covenant with God, I must make a covenant with the land.'' This Levin does from his own backyard, a hill one hundred yards above Blood Brook, a ``humble stream'' in which he sees ``the whole of North American embodied.'' He tracks down the brook's headwaters, ``mere puddles in the springy soil,'' and observes the creatures-sculpin, muskrat, whirligigs, brook trout-that roil its waters. As a child, Levin believed in God, the Yankees, and nature. Low-key nature observations presented with grace by naturalist, wildlife photographer, and free-lance journalist Levin.
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