I'd love to but first, let me just say that these three purposes or goals, they're not distinct. They're all interlocked. It's, it's like three beads on a string. What I value about the natural world can't be separated from the fact that, oh, it's the greatest show on worth and and like many others, I want to communicate that in in words, in order to entertain and to encourage others to appreciate and enjoy the natural world. But I did see some themes as I wrote and as I read some theme and as I spent time in the natural world, which is the most important educator of all. Of course, one of the big themes is diversity. There are just so many animals and plants and microbes out there all making a living. And I'm no stamp collector. I've never had an interest in constructing species lists or things like that, but there's nothing better than walking through a forest of Naples and hickories and oaks, and then perhaps to a grove of hemlock trees or or watching those great rafts of ducks on the on the lake in the middle of winter, and despite the cold, trying To identify them through my binoculars, and we really shouldn't take that diversity for granted. We should be glad that we live in a world that has so many different species. I like to think life's been on this planet for 3 billion years. We're pretty sure, and at no time has one species completely taken over. It's not a this world is not a place where the winner takes all. And I think that's something as humans, we need to remember that. And it's the reason seems to be that there's never quite enough of what an individual species needs, whether that's food or water or light or what have you, and too much of what it doesn't need, like predators or competitors or extremes of temperature or what have you. And perhaps a little bit more darkly, I think this is why the ongoing mass extinction caused by humans really is a catastrophe of the first order. This work our living world is all about diversity, but in terms of our local world, I think we get a real pleasure from seeing the familiar again and then encountering the unexpected. And by definition, we never know when the unexpected will happen. So if you take, for example, a winter walk in the forest, there will be almost certainly all the usual suspects around here, gray squirrels, woodland birds such as juncos and Blue Jays, chickadees, woodpeckers, and then one might come across something completely unexpected. And I'd like to take an example from one of the essays that I wrote about something completely unexpected. Let me just get there. There we go. It was a winter walk, and it was in one of our favorite haunts, Sweden, nature preserve, which is quite close to Ithaca, where I live, about 10 minutes along the trail, I noticed a pile of wood fragments around the base of a dead tree, and portions of the trunk were torn away, if anything can be labeled as a frenzied attack. This was it. Other dead trees nearby had been. Attacked in a similar way, high up, low, down, or scored from top to bottom. We puzzled over the likely perpetrator. A quick email consultation with Paul Curtis, an expert in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University, yielded this response. He emailed back to us very promptly. It looks to me that the damage was caused by a black bear probably trying to get at grubs in the dead wood with the mild winter weather. So far, some juvenile male bears may not yet be in their winter dens. So this was a real surprise to us, because in two ways. First and foremostly, black bears were extirpated from this area over 100 years ago, and we were both very both my husband and I were aware that black bears are sort of extending their range from the south up and from the north down, but we hadn't really appreciated that black bears are really with us, not just a single individual passing through that might be reported, but really with us and active right in the middle of winter. So that was just one example of of the unexpected and then over and above the familiar and the unexpected. There are all those predictable seasonal changes, I don't know, the Trillium lilies in April, when the chimney sweats and the hummingbirds come in the early summer, when witch hazel comes into bloom, but in the understory between October and December, and then in the middle of the winter, one sees tree sparrows at the woodland edge and Tundra Swans on the lake. All of these things are what I really value as an individual. I tried to summarize this right in the short post script of the book, because I don't know if you notice, I found myself talking about individual examples, and what I in the opening paragraph, what I wrote was, the natural world is the best show on earth. Yet I find it a challenge to construct a simple statement that encapsulates what I value about it. In other words, what I thought would take an armed would end up in a little mission statement. I gave up. It wasn't possible any attempt to distill the essence is ambushed by the detail the first time each year that I see a nestling bobbing up and down in the osprey nest in the local city park. My greater awareness of golden rods in the meadows and waste places, once I knuckle down to identify some of the species, the sparkle of fresh snow in winter sunshine, the grandeur of a summer storm. It's all very personal and very particular. And I also came to understand that different people can value the natural world in rather different ways. And this meant that if I was going to write about it, it was really important that I don't instruct or pontificate like an academic. My essays have to be just one side of a conversation. You could say, Show, not tell, or suggest, not preach, or offering raw material that for readers to think about, so that they can work out that what they value about the natural world, which may not be identical to what I value. So it was a long answer to your question.