Diane Ackerman Quotes

Must Be I Find You
tough And Lusty As The Life,
all Toil And Tempo,
finesse And Plain Fight,
with Values So Old They Startle Me.
Must Be I Think Of You
as I Do The Rugged Flowers
that Prove Themselves Over And Over In The Spring,
that Elsewhere Might Perish,
but Here Master The Earth,
bloom Into Gangly Lives Of High Color,
and Inhale The Sun, Knowing The Land
better Than The Land Does.
Hardy, Savvy,
they Will Outlive Us All.

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