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You Can't Go Home Again, But You Can Make Yourself Your Home

Vivian Norris | Posted 04.15.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Billboards, Small Business, Air Conditioning, Lifestyle, Non, Money, Kindness, Globalization, Wildflowers, Texas, Commercialism, Childhood, Capitalism, Past, Home, Mid-Life Crisis, Edith Piaf, France, House, Chain Stores, Job, Waste, Live, Europe, Present, Nostalgia, Je Ne Regrette Rien, Healthy Living News
Vivian Norris

A recent wave of nostalgia accompanied by trips back "home", have had me pondering why we sometimes think that what we left behind might contain somet...

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10 Reasons to Visit the Smoky Mountains Right Now (PHOTOS)

HomeAway | Posted 04.04.2013 | Travel
Read More: Hiking, Great Smoky Mountains, Black Bears, Nature, Fly Fishing, Wildflowers, Shoulder Season, Off Season, National Parks, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Wildlife, Slidepollajax, Gatlinburg, Travel News
HomeAway

While it's fun and cheap to visit year-round, those who are picky and visit in April or May will be rewarded. Shoulder Season is upon us, and it doesn't get much better than this -- mild weather, empty hiking trails and scene stealing wildflowers are just a few great reasons to visit the Smokies.

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Finding Beauty After The Flowers Leave California

Lisa Novick | Posted 07.04.2012 | Travel
Read More: Southern California, Spring, Authenticity, Wildflowers, Native Plants, Landscape, Wildlife, Travel News
Lisa Novick

We long for authentic beauty -- for the autumn colors of the deciduous forests of New England or for the groves of redwoods further up the California coast.

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PHOTOS: Wild Orchids Like You've Never Seen

Posted 02.14.2012 | Green
Read More: Orchids, Nature Photography, Video, Tropical Orchids, Wild Orchid Flowers, Wildlife-Photography, Nature, Wild Orchids, Wildflowers, Rare Flowers, Flower, Rare Plants, Green News

By Christian Ziegler: Confucius called them the "king of fragrant plants," and John Ruskin condemned them as "prurient apparitions." Across the cen...

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Nature in New York City

Marielle Anzelone | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Water Lily, Nyc, Rare, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Conservation, Wildflowers, Native Plants, Blue Heron Park, New York City, Orchids, Salt Marshes, Open Space, Planyc, Soft Rush, Nature, Parks, Biodiversity, Wetlands, Preservation, Development, Staten Island, Forests, Cities, Meadows, New York News
Marielle Anzelone

It isn't easy being green in the Big Apple. Over the past century, 75% of the city's woodlands, wetlands and meadows have been destroyed.

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More Than the Million Trees, Where Is Nature in PlaNYC?

Marielle Anzelone | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Million Trees Nyc, Queens, Forest, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Conservation, Wildflowers, Cunningham Park, Habitat Loss, International Year of Biodiversity, Native Plants, Nyc, Habitat Destruction, Planyc, Extinction, Biodiversity, Parks, Nature, Urban Ecology, New York News
Marielle Anzelone

The loss of doll's eyes from the Big Apple illustrates a disturbing trend -- the local extinction of our wild flora.

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Where Do All the Flowers Grow?

Rich Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Pasqueflower, Claytonia Rosea, Sand Lily, Salsify, Leucocrinum Montanum, Wildflowers, Homestead, Viola Nuttallii Pursh, Tragopogon Dubius, Lomatium Cous, Lance-Leaved Chiming Bells, Maiden Blue Eyed Mary, Boulder Colorado, Nuttall's Violets, Collinsia Parviflora, Protoanemonin, Towhee, Mertensia Lanceolata, Spring Beauty, Anemone Pulsatilla, Biscuitroot, Denver News
Rich Wolf

Front Range spring peeping is quite rewarding now, as many early plants and seeds have returned from dormancy to establish their tiny gene survival platforms -- flowers

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Think Global, Act Local- Bedstuy Meadow Project

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, Deborah Fisher, Guerilla Gardening, Wildflowers, Community Organizing, Urban Agriculture, Bed Stuy Meadow, Gardens, Green Living, Hattie Carthan, Green News
Robyn Hillman-Harrigan

An interview with Deborah Fisher who planned the Bedstuy Meadow Project: "The goal is to sow wildflower seeds on every single patch of abandoned soil in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bed Stuy."

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