By the middle of July our dry meadows are merry with
black-eyed Susans, which are laughing from every corner and keeping up a gay midsummer carnival . . . They seem to revel in the long days of blazing sunlight . . .
--Dana (1813-1895)
To read an article about James Dwight Dana, the author of the quotation above,
click here.
Dana in 1865
Source of the quotation above: Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)
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