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  The Meticulous, Elegant Illustrations of the Nature Observed in England’s Countryside

  

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmAbh5ZkDEo If you happen to have grown up in the English countryside, you probably retain a certain sensitivity to and affinity for nature. This can express itself in any number of ways, most often by a compulsion to garden, no matter how urban the setting in which you now live. But Jo Brown has shown […]

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