The Earth is

… The earth is fair;
all that the earth demands is the earth’s share;
all we pervade and revel in and vow
never to lose, always to hold somehow,
we hold of earth, in temporary care.

— George Starbuck, from For an American Burial

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Detail, “In The Forest,” painting and mixed media, 6×6’ on canvas, by Dorothy D. Dunn, c. 1985; shared with permission of the Dunn Family Foundation

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