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


-Hal Borland

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

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