"To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom……" — Hal Borland
"To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity."
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Hal Borland
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