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There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless fealty, so reticent a love, that neither do trumpets sound for it nor quarrels arise from it. Only, you will find that those who have pledged allegiance are happy about it in quiet.

Donald Culross Peattie

The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.

Donald Culross Peattie

Donald Culross Peattie

Donald Culross Peattie

Born: June 21, 1898

Died: November 16, 1964 (aged 66)

Bio: Donald Culross Peattie was an American botanist, naturalist and author. He was described by Joseph Wood Krutch as "perhaps the most widely read of all contemporary American nature writers" during his heyday.

Known for:

A Natural History of North American Trees
An almanac for moderns (1935)
The road of a naturalist (1941)
Flowering earth (1939)

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