Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation

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NATURALIST A G R A PHIC A D A PTAT IO N

EDWARD O. WILSON

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naturalist

naturalist A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION

EDWARD O. WILSON ADAPTED BY JIM OTTAVIANI ART BY C.M.BUTZER COLORING BY HILARY SYCAMORE

Text copyright © 2020 Edward O. Wilson Art copyright © 2020 Christopher M. Butzer Adaptation copyright © 2020 Jim Ottaviani “Daybreak in Alabama,” on page 5, from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor.

Copyright © 1994 Estate of Langston Hughes Print, North America: Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Keywords: Ants, Alabama, Biodiversity, biophilia, chemical signaling, conservation, ecology, entomology, evolutionary biology, Florida, Harvard University, island biogeography, National Museum of Natural History, National Zoo, natural history, nature, Pensacola, Pulitzer Prize, Rock Creek Park, speciation, sociobiology, University of Alabama

To the memory of William L. Brown and Frank M. Carpenter, great Harvard entomologists whose support made my career possible.

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PART ONE

Daybreak in Alabama When I get to be a composer I’m gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I’m gonna put the purtiest songs in it Rising out of the ground like swamp mist And falling out of heaven like soft dew.

[LANGSTON HUGHES]

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