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An Ode to Milkweed

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I’ve been walking through milkweed patches, flipping over leaves, looking for chew marks, searching for eggs. So far, nada…no Monarch...

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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. – James Russell Lowell

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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the...

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What good is a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau

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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. – Emerson

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To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in the palm...

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With all things and in all things, we are relatives. – Sioux Proverb

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To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekly Nature Quote…Shelley

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There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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