_Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly_ by Sue Halpern
NY: Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 0-375-40208-x
(38) Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet and monarch conservationist... Exaltation of Light [also associated with the Beats and friend of WS Merwin]
NAFTA chose the monarch butterfly as its symbol
(99) "Science is a process of learning from your mistakes," he [Chip Taylor] said. "If I get data that're dead wrong, I know I'm onto something. Failure tells you where to go next. Scientists forrget how many mistakes they made along the way. They present their results in a refined way that doesn't suggest they screwed up for four years."
(108) diapause - when referencing animal dormancy, is the delay in development in response to regularly and recurring periods of adverse environmental conditions. It is considered to be a physiological state of dormancy with very specific initiating and inhibiting conditions.
(117) He [Paul Cherubini, pesticide dealer and monarch enthusiast] was an angry white guy, the kind who always felt left out and disrespected, the kind whose anger - if anyone cared to notice - came from sadness not from spite.
(172) "Any fool can do science," he [David Gibo] said, taking stock of his kit: field glasses, wind gauge, thermometer, compass, logbook. "That's why it's so powerful."
(178) ...in numbers that made them seem like winged rain.
(208) Alison Hawthorne Deming, The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (Louisiana University Press)
