Daddy, I want to see the stars.” Feet firmly planted beside the bed, my fouryearold daughter repeated the request more loudly, waking me sufficiently to reach for the clock. It was past midnight. Stumbling out of the front door with an oversized jacket wrapped around us both, I wondered why I had ever introduced her to the heavens. We looked up and then we knew. And I remembered a similar early hour when Dad woke me and took me to a high place: just a comet, the stars, and us two. IkeyaSeki’s tail was long, the stars brilliant. They filled our sky.This timeless experience is not available to many who live in and around our cities today. But what about the millions who could take the chance to stand beneath a clear night sky, but have not? Rachel Carson describes a particularly memorable encounter with the stars.

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