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"My heart is fixed firm and stable in the belief that ultimately the sunshine and the summer, the flowers and the azure sky, shall become, as it were, interwoven into man's existence. He shall take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory. " -- RICHARD JEFFERIES: The Life of the Fields.
It was the little lad that asked the question; and the answer also, as you will see, was mainly his.