Bookstores quench a desire to know more, absorb quality information, browse to find something new and connect stray threads of details. Readers write; writers read.
Books are compressed lives, distilled into words.
Being passionately curious leads to the best places. Pulling over because a place seems to invite that visit – and that leads to discovery. (Related story, here.) Such as vernal ponds with cronking frogs.
Knee deep in cold, clear water with frog egg masses.