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The author is grateful to the following authors, translators, publishers, copyright holders, and others granting permission to use excerpts from the following works:

Edward O. Wilson. Reprinted by permission of the publisher from
Biophilia
by Edward O. Wilson, pages 11, 12, 22, 106, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1984 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.
(Pages vii, 17, 141, 159.)

Rainer Maria Rilke. From
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Copyright © 1984 by Stephen Mitchell. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
(Pages 1, 31, 163.)

Kobayashi Issa. Translations by David G. Lanoue. From his Web site
Haiku of Kobayashi Issa
.
http://haikuguy.com/issa/
.
(Pages 3, 85, 95, 149, 155.)

Kobayashi Issa. Haiku of Issa’s (“the snail gets up / . . .”) from
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson & Issa,
edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Introduction and selection copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Unless otherwise noted, all translations copyright © 1994 by Robert Hass. Reprinted by permission of Harper Collins Publishers.
(Page 9.)

Elizabeth Bishop. Excerpts from “Giant Snail” from
The Complete Poems 1927–1979
by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
(Pages 25, 64, 69.)

A. A. Milne. “The Four Friends,” from
When We Were Very Young
by A. A. Milne. Copyright © 1924 by E. P. Dutton, renewed 1952 by A. A. Milne. Used by permission of Dutton Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014. All rights reserved.
(Page 26.)

Emily Dickinson. Reprinted by permission of the publishers from
The Letters of Emily Dickinson,
Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1958, 1986, The President and Fellows of Harvard College; 1914, 1924, 1932, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; 1952 by Alfred Leete Hampson; 1960 by Mary L. Hampson.
(Page 37.)

Billy Collins. “Evasive Maneuvers,” from
Ballistics
by Billy Collins. Copyright © 2008 by Billy Collins. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
(Page 48.)

Patricia Highsmith. Excerpts from “The Snail Watcher” and “The Quest for
Blank Claveringi
” from
Eleven.
Copyright © 1945, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 by Patricia Highsmith. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
(Pages 51, 120–1.)

Hans Christian Andersen. From “The Snail and the Rosebush.”
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
by Hans Christian Andersen. Published by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
(Page 103.)

Karl von Frisch.
A Biologist Remembers
. Translated by L. Gombrich. Oxford, 1967. Originally published in German,
Erinnerungen eines Biologen,
2nd ed., 1962, by Springer (Berlin).
(Page 111.)

Yosa Buson. Translation by Janine Beichman. Reprinted by permission of Cheng & Tsui Company, Inc. from
Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works
by Janine Beichman (Boston, Mass.: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2002). Copyright © 2002 Cheng & Tsui Company, Inc.
(Page 113.)

Gerald M. Durrell. Excerpts from
Birds, Beasts and Relatives
. Copyright © 1969 by Gerald M. Durrell. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. For Canada and UK, reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London on behalf of the Estate of Gerald Durrell. Copyright © Gerald Durrell 1969.
(Pages 123–24, 126–27.)

Yosa Buson. Haiku translation from
The Path of Flowering Thorn
by Makoto Ueda. Copyright © 1998 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. All rights reserved. Used with the permission of Stanford University Press,
www.sup.org
.
(Page 129.)

Koybayashi Issa. Translation from
Haiku
. Copyright © 1949, 1950, 1952 by R. H. Blyth. Reprinted by permission of The Hokuseido Press.
(Page 143.)

And yet when love-making is not in question,
the snail is by no means sociable, although
[it has been] . . .
observed in one branch of the family, snails engaged in
mutually polishing a neighbour’s shell with the foot.

— “Snails and Their Houses,” 1888