The Unabridged firefly: It's Natural

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
John Muir

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel
of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
Hal Borland

"Look at those cows and remember
that the greatest scientists in the world
have never discovered how
to make grass into milk."
Michael Pupin

Fabric

I try to live each day
In such a way
That when tomorrow makes today a yesterday
I will have woven into the fabric of my life
Some gay design,
Some patch of color,
Bright, to please the eye.
So that, in the graying years to come,
When all the quick responsive senses dull,
I may look back across the patterns of my past
And in my memory
Live the joys and pains
Of all my yesterdays.

Don Blanding

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