"Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs."

Environment, Summer, Nature, Night, Atmosphere

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"Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs."

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."

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"It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding."

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"I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand."

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"The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships."

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"He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing."

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"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."

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"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."

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