Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly, and this happens around the globe, like this hillside in the Smoky Mountains that I saw transformed into a living cascade of light by the eerie glows of these blue ghost fireflies, or a roadside river that I visited in Japan as it was giving birth to the slow, floating flashes of these Genji fireflies, or in Malaysia, the mangrove trees that I watched blossom nightly not with flowers but with the lights of a thousand —  (Bleep! Bleep!) — fireflies, all blinking together in stunning synchrony.
Sada, ako ste ikad vidjeli ili ikad čuli za krijesnice, onda znate kako magično mogu preobraziti naš svakodnevni krajolik u nešto eterično i nadzemaljsko. I ovo se događa diljem zemlje, poput padina Smoky Mountainsa koje sam vidjela kako se  preobražavaju u živući slap svjetlosti jezivim sjajem ovih  plavih duhova - krijesnica. Ili poput rijeke uz cestu  koju sam posjetila u Japanu dok je rađala usporene,  plutajuće bljeskalice ovih Genji krijesnica. Ili poput stabala mangrova u Maleziji koje sam noću promatrala kako cvatu, ali ne cvijećem, već svjetlošću tisuću  - (Bip!Bip!) - krijesnica, treperući zajedno zapanjujućom sinkronijom.