It’s time to slow down and appreciate nature’s tiny marvels

“Look at that caterpillar,” Andrew J. Brand said one afternoon as we passed a hummocky old bottlebrush buckeye shrub in my garden.

What caterpillar, I thought, quickly training my eyes in the direction of his gaze rather than embarrassing myself by acknowledging that I hadn’t noticed anything.

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What he had spied looked to me like nothing more than just another of many twigs,…