The following is an excerpt from my latest book, Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants which can be found in Step 7, Turn Invisible and Instill No Fear.
I remember standing at the upper end of a shallow pool on a tiny stream early one morning and watching a large Snapping Turtle slide into the pool at the lower end. Realizing that I was right on her trail, I forgot about her and went back to listening. When a gust of wind tugged at the nearby bushes, I bent as well.
Catching her every now and then in my peripheral vision—which was easy with the water being so shallow that it didn’t cover her shell—I kept track of her progress. My gaze drifted here and there, to whatever attracted it. When she reached my end of the pool, she passed by me without a flinch, even though I was standing in full sunlight and was so close that I could have bent over to pick her up.
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