“Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times that I saw no eyes, that I kept walking and never knew,
there were still coyotes.
"When I have seen them trot away,
when I have stepped from the floorboard of my truck, leaned on the door,
and watched them as they watched me
over their shoulders,
when I have stepped from the floorboard of my truck, leaned on the door,
and watched them as they watched me
over their shoulders,
"I have been aware for that moment
of how much more there is.
Of how I have only seen only an instant
of how much more there is.
Of how I have only seen only an instant
of a broad and rich life.”
--Craig Child, The Animal Dialogues:
Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
Sharing with Weekly Top Shot, Camera Critters
