If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side ... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time ... is a very good one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today's quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson; the picture was taken at the Linnean Society last summer.
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