"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ann Swengel grew up surrounded by the trees, flowers, and butterflies of upstate New York. "I was an outdoor kid," she recalls. Swengel's mother and father, who are deeply religious, instilled in her a respect for nature. "I learned care for the natural world from my parents."
Swengel remembers one summer when ...