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                   To Look At Any Thing,      If you would know that thing,   

                                      You must look at it long:

                       To look at this green and say,      'I have seen spring in these woods'

                                                        will not do --

                                             You must be the thing you see:

                      You must be the dark snakes of   

Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,

                                You must enter in         To the small silences between         The leaves,

                                                  You must take your time            And touch the very peace            

                                     They issue from.    

                                                                                         -John Moffitt

 We need the tonic of wildness  --  to wade sometimes in marshes  

                                                                                    where the Bittern and the Meadow Hen lurk,  

                                                       and hear the boom of the Snipe;  

                          to smell the whispering Sedge

             where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest,

        and the Mink crawls on it's belly close to the ground. .  .  .

                                                             We can never have enough of nature.   

                                                                                -Henry David  Thoreau from Walden

*Excerpts from "The Earth Speaks" by: Steve Van Matre and Bill Weiler More Home