Bird by bird (Random House Publishing)

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded żeby binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized żeby the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird aby bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"