“Living on Earth without knowing anything about nature is like living in Tokyo without knowing a word of Japanese. Sure, you can get by. But you’re going to miss a lot of what's going on.”

-- Kenn Kaufman

 Black-throated Green Warbler. Nests in the eastern US and Canada, winters mostly in Mexico and Central America.
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Kenn Kaufman. Photo by Kimberly Kaufman
I was lucky. The sheer variety of nature captured my imagination when I was very young, and my life has been endlessly fascinating as a result. Now my mission is to open more eyes to the wonders of nature. Through my books, magazine articles, public speaking, and now through the internet, I want to share the remarkable diversity of the natural world with everyone.
Small White Lady's-Slipper. This orchid, restricted to damp prairies of the upper midwest, is now localized and rather rare.
The world
of nature
is the
real world
New in spring 2008 --
My latest book, a memoir, Flights Against the Sunset
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