"If a masterly landscape painter was to take our hanging woods in their autumnal colours, persons unacquainted with the country would object to the strength and deepness of the tints, and would pronounce, at an exhibition, that they were heightened and shaded beyond nature." ~ Gilbert White, English Naturalist (1720 - 1793)

The English Year, Compiled by Geoffrey Grigson, 1984, Oxford University Press

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