‘Juvenation’

Hermit Thrush, Vermont’s state bird.

— Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren

“Look. And smell. Breathe deeply. Feel the air; touch it now and sense its purity, its vigor, its super-constant juvenation (that supposedly has given Vermonters their long life — if you discount their stubbornness.)’’

— Evan Hill, in The Connecticut River