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*** *** Lesson Four ：Wisdom of Bear Wood Michael Welzenbach When I was 12 years old, my family moved to England, the fourth major move in my short life. My father ’s government job demanded that he go overseas every few years, so I was used to wrenching myself away from friends. We rented an 18th-century farmhouse in Berkshire. Nearby were ancient castles and churches. Loving nature, however, I was most delighted by the endless patchwork of farms and woodland that surrounded our house. In the deep woods that verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost everywhere, and pheasa