Drew’s life. From an early age, he had always been interested in nature starting with being able to fly and eventually leading into his job of bird watching. It also gave Drew a stronger connection with his Father and brother when they would go split wood or mend fences together. “Now here I was far away from moments of inertia and rates of deceleration, out under the biggest, bluest sky, surrounded by singing birds in fields of forest that stretched as far as the eye could see. I’d always dreamed of this kind of life” (Lanham 138). Not only did he benefit from nature by finding his true passion and realizing he did not want to be an engineer it also taught him many lessons throughout his life. Starting with when he got his first BB gun and killed a bird to the ending where he realized “uncertainty was more the rule than the exception in nature” (Lanham
Drew’s life. From an early age, he had always been interested in nature starting with being able to fly and eventually leading into his job of bird watching. It also gave Drew a stronger connection with his Father and brother when they would go split wood or mend fences together. “Now here I was far away from moments of inertia and rates of deceleration, out under the biggest, bluest sky, surrounded by singing birds in fields of forest that stretched as far as the eye could see. I’d always dreamed of this kind of life” (Lanham 138). Not only did he benefit from nature by finding his true passion and realizing he did not want to be an engineer it also taught him many lessons throughout his life. Starting with when he got his first BB gun and killed a bird to the ending where he realized “uncertainty was more the rule than the exception in nature” (Lanham