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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Alabama Sounds, 1936

April 28, 2014 · by jonathaneennewton | in Miscellany, Quotes | tagged nature, quote, sound | Leave a comment

Walker Evans, Alabama Tenant Farmer Family Singing Hymns, 1936 Outside, from near, there is a new sound. It happens every night, and it is most sorrowful. It is the voice of a blond, fat, and craven rooster, a creature half-frightened of his own wives; and in this poor voice of his, lugubrious, almost surreptitious, he is […]

Cities Are People Too

April 21, 2014 · by jonathaneennewton | in Issues, Miscellany | tagged cities, commons, hyde | Leave a comment

High Line, 2010 I believe that a strong commons (physical, digital, or whatever) reflects a healthy nation. (As I write, I’m sitting in the commonwealth–of Virginia, that is). What I saw on my recent three-month trip through the US confirmed that others feel the same. The public is fed up with bad urban design, and they are […]

The Little Guy

April 19, 2014 · by jonathaneennewton | in Miscellany, Quotes | tagged botany, ecology, poetry | Leave a comment

Within a few weeks now Draba, the smallest flower that blooms, will sprinkle every sandy place with small blooms. He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with knees in […]

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