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"All I want is to stand in a field
and to smell green,
to taste air,
to feel the earth want me,
Without all this concrete
hating me."
-Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and other Speculations

*As seen @ www.tulips.com/

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
-John Lubbock

"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

...and tulips!

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
-e.e. cummings

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
-John Muir

*Skagit Valley, WA