Paths Far and Near

Poetry by Millard C. Davis. Millard C. Davis is agraduate of Middlebury College (B.A., 1953, psychology), Cornell University (M.S., 1958, entomology), and The University of Wisconsin (M.S., 1970, Environmental Communication). He has taught the sciences and literature, been an editor with the National Science Teachers Association and Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine, and retired as an entomologist with the State of New Jersey. He has served as president of the American Nature Study Society and the Audubon New Jersey Wildlife Society and has published two books on natural history, The Near Woods (Knopf, 1974) and Natural Pathways of New Jersey (Plexus, 1997) plus a booklet How to Read the Natural Landscape in Forests and Fields (National Science Teachers Association, 1971). During the summer of 2004 he gave at Trail Wood the Teale/Thoreau talk to celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the publication of Thoreau's Walden.