Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson Occasional Prose your relationship with your penknife

your relationship with your penknife will grow deeper and stronger than you could have ever imagined

originally published in 1915

New York Times bestselling author of Second Chance Dog

but we so desperately need this quiet masterpiece

hear with your soul

Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson Occasional Prose your relationship with your penknifeEdward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming of age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career both his successes and his failures and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more