"It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises."
"The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest."
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Source: Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK
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