An Ode to Milkweed
I've been walking through milkweed patches, flipping over leaves, looking for chew marks, searching for eggs. So far, nada...no Monarch...
Weekly Nature Quote…Lowell
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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
Weekly Nature Quote…Emerson
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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
Weekly Nature Quote…Sagan
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To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan
Weekly Nature Quote…Emerson
Nov 16, 2011
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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