You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Hal Borland
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  2. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

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  4. Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  5. Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

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