"If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell....
..among all the delights of the open world...
..on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn;
the smell of pine trees in the heat of noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese;
the sight of a dragonfly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening;
and....most spiritual and moving of sights....
the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky."
From: IN THE WOODS, by Edwin Way Teale
"If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell....
..among all the delights of the open world...
..on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn;
the smell of pine trees in the heat of noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese;
the sight of a dragonfly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening;
and....most spiritual and moving of sights....
the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky."
From: IN THE WOODS, by Edwin Way Teale
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Just beautiful!
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