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hen taking time to observe intimately the herbaceous plants and grasses, delicate beauty is apparent in the details. Grasses have always attracted me, and thus what is left of the prairie is fascinating. Today, the genetic and biological diversity of the prairie plants have almost disappeared. I often wonder what it would have been like to experience North America in the 18th century, prior to its complete human transformation. In the middle of the continent at that temporal juncture, the prairie covered about 1.4 million square miles. To a large extent, our understanding and relationship to reality is based on the accidental timing of our inception.
“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not.” - Thomas Carlyle
