The natural surroundings were very attractive because we… our house was in an old apple orchard and we had an old apple tree in the… in the orchard, in… in our garden where a pair of flickers nested. There were barred white quails in the back yard. It was real nature, and furthermore, I had to drive only 10 minutes or 15 minutes by car to get into a big… to get to a big swamp, and other interesting areas and I could do a great deal of field work, ornithological field work, satisfying my instincts as a naturalist. And I… I… in these years that I was there in Tenafly raising my family I… I really had a wonderful time with one exception: every morning I had to spend one hour to get from there to the American Museum [of Natural History], and every evening I had to spend one hour getting home again. So this… 17 years of commuting was something that I considered very much wasted time, which of course it also was. And when finally my time at the American Museum was beginning to get near the end, we said, ‘Well, as soon as the children are out of high school we move back to New York somewhere right next to the Museum so that no more… commuting is necessary’.