“It’s a beautiful morning, ah I think I’ll go outside for a while And just smile.”—Felix Cavaliere/ Edward Brigati In the early morning I...

“It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty,...

“And then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.” Beatrix Potter Along the roadsides and in the fields Queen Anne’s...

“Blue colour is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.” —John Ruskin I am partial to blue flowers. In my summer...

“My temple is the swamp. I enter the swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum.”—Henry David Thoreau For the past three months, I have...

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”—A.A. Milne In high summer, in New England, we are surrounded by wildflowers,...