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The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a
World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men (1989) by Harry Middleton
"In this memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills,
Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward
Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year 1965, a year rife with change
in the world---and in the life of a boy whose tragic loss of innocence
leads him to the healing landscape of the Ozarks. Haunted by
indescribable longing, twelve-year-old Harry is turned over to two
enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they farm and as elusive
and beautiful as the trout they fish for---with religious devotion.
Seeking strength and purpose from life, Harry learns from his uncle,
grandfather, and their crazy Sioux neighbor, Elias Wonder, that the
pulse of life beats from within the deep constancy of the earth, and
from one’s devotion to it. Amidst the rhythm of an ancient cadence,
Harry discovers his home: a farm, a mountain stream, and the eye of a
trout rising."
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