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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
Born: Oct 7, 1948

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