Acknowledgments: The author would like to thank the numerous people who made this novel possible, especially Mervi Pakaste, who’s designer’s eye and hand touched every page; the Board of FC2 who set it in motion, Dan Waterman, for his guidance at the press for what are always odd books. More specifically: Overall book design and layout, Mervi Pakaste; Chapter 3: Design, layout and imagery by Dan Warner and Mervi Pakaste. Thanks to Dr. Mary Ann McDowell for conversations about disease vectors, infectious diseases, and for allowing me to be a fly on the wall of her lab; to Marcelo Ramalho-Origao for teaching me how to dissect sand flies, and everyone else in the lab for being so open. Adam Fung for his paintings, “Wake,” and “break up (triptych)”. NASA, earth from apace, earth at night. Martin Krzywinski, DNA visualization. NOAA's Office of Coast Survey Historical Map & Chart Collection. John Craig Freeman, and 4Gentlemen, Tiananmen SquARed. Ava Tomasula y Garcia, kids on beach, GPF cat, planet losing atmosphere. Ingrid Moen, Charlotte Jevne, Jian Wang, Karl-Henning Kalland, Martha Chekenya, Lars A Akslen, Linda Sleire, Per Ø Enger, Rolf K Reed, Anne M Øyan and Linda EB Stuhr: "Gene expression in tumor cells and stroma in dsRed 4T1 tumors in eGFP-expressing mice with and without enhanced oxygenation in: BMC Cancer. 2012, 12:21." Louis Agassiz, Zmutt Valley near Zermatt. MrHicks46 (Teo Romera), Ice Fields licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0). Ben Funke, One. Eric Whitacre Inc., Virtual Choir. Iselita Arlen, Tokyo Wave Pool. Wilfredor, Petare Slums, Wikimedia Commons. Shutterstock, Migrants on Fence, Greenhouses Almeria Spain, chicken factory, migrant boats, Sun City, oil field. FreedomHouse, Wikimedia Commons, Migrants and refugees arrive by dinghy behind a huge pile of life vests after crossing from Turkey. ©Bwag/CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia Commons, Migrants Wien-Westbahnhof. Gémes Sándor/SzomSzed, Wikimedia Commons, Migrants in Hungary near the Serbian border. Wikimedia Commons, Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delight (details), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Garbage Patch, Mina de Chuquicamata, Calama. Latvian Satellite Reef (detail) from the Crochet Coral Reef project by Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim and the Institute for Figuring. Photo © IFF. Sound Spirit, Congestion in India. Alex Rio Brazil, Deforestation, Wikimedia Commons. Chris Lintott, PI, Zooniverse and team members, Planet Hunters. U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior/USGS, Earthquake Tracker. Peter Rejcek for National Science Foundation, Blood Falls. John Craig Freeman, Border Memorial. Bernard Spragg, Hubbard Glacier. Also helpful: Susan Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. Barbara Matilsky, Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012. A compost of too many online sources and events to list, however, à la Wittgenstein, I make no claim to ideas not my own, an idea that I owe to him.