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
Sep 5, 2012
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. – James Russell Lowell
Weekly Nature Quote…Wyeth
Dec 28, 2011
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the...
Weekly Nature Quote…Thoreau
Dec 20, 2011
What good is a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau
Weekly Nature Quote…Emerson
Dec 14, 2011
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. – Emerson
Weekly Nature Quote…Blake
Dec 7, 2011
To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in the palm...
Weekly Nature Quote…Sioux Proverb
Nov 30, 2011
With all things and in all things, we are relatives. – Sioux Proverb
Weekly Nature Quote…Sagan
Nov 23, 2011
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
Weekly Nature Quote…Shelley
Nov 9, 2011
There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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