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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.