What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be Lord of all the workes of Nature, To raigne in th’aire from th’earth to highest sky, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eie? Spenser

The backyard overgrown with wild grape, hollyhock, creeping charlie, is home to a thousand white butterflies this August…. Ann Filemyr NOTES FOR THE FOURTH WEEK OF LATE SUMMER THE FORTIETH WEEK OF THE NATURAL YEAR

Below Böotes thou seest the Virgin An ear of corn held sparkling in her hand Aratos

May we not see GodAre we to be put off and amused in this life, as it were with a mere allegory? Is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? Henry David Thoreau NOTES FOR THE SECOND WEEK OF LATE SUMMER THE THIRTY-EIGHTH WEEK OF THE NATURAL YEAR

Here are no stories told you of what is to be seen at the other end of the world, but of things at home, in your own Native Country, at your own doors, easily examinable with little travel, less cost, and very little hazard. Joshua Childrey, 1660 NOTES FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF LATE SUMMER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH WEEK OF THE NATURAL YEAR

The world appears as a complicated tissue of events in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.  W. Heisenberg THE FINAL WEEK OF MIDDLE SUMMER THE THIRTY-SIXTH WEEK OF THE NATURAL YEAR

Heavy July. Too rampant and too lush; High Summer, dull, fulfilled, and satiate. Nothing to fear, and little to await. The very birds are hush. Dark over-burdened woods: too black, their green. Vita Sackville-West NOTES FOR THE FIFTH WEEK OF MIDDLE SUMMER THE THIRTY-FIFTH WEEK OF THE NATURAL YEAR

Infinite numbers, delicacies, smells, With hues on hues expression cannot paint, The breath of Nature and her endless bloom…. James Thomson NOTES FOR THE THIRD WEEK OF MIDDLE SUMMER THE THIRTY-THIRD WEEK OF THE NATURAL YEAR ASTRONOMICAL

Stay together Learn the flowers Go light Gary Snyder ASTRONOMICAL The Cherry Pie Moon wanes throughout the period, entering its final quarter on July 4 at 5:13 p.m. Rising in the middle of the night and setting in the afternoon, the moon will move overhead before sunrise,