WE LIVE AMONG creatures far taller, far stranger, and far, far more long-lived than any dinosaur. Beings whose life spans can be counted in millennia and in whose shade entire empires crest and crash. It seems no accident that children, who are accustomed to looking upward to perceive the world, are the world's great dinophiles and arbor-philes. In young adulthood, we tend to lose that uptilted cast of the eyes, that awe for the awesome. But some of us, by accident or force of will, are lucky enough to regain it.
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