Gilbert White

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.