“Live in each season as it passes,” he wrote on August 23, 1853. “Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Be blown on by all the winds. Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of Nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. Grow green with spring, yellow and ripe with... See more

I visit a field of goldenrod down the road from my house, its genus name Solidago referring to the sun. The smell of goldenrod is the smell of the sweet golden days, this brilliant season between summer and fall, another with no name. I stand in a new relation to the sun. It electrifies my every cell. The color of goldenrod flowers is the feeling... See more