How a free-range suburbia cemented my empathy for nature
Green Source Texas editor reflects on childhood spent freely roaming her suburban North Texas neighborhood.
Much has been sung
Of new flowers in Spring,
Bright reds, pinks, blues.
But these are just grace notes
Here slept a streamside glade
Spring-lush with daisies, grasses;
Deer drifted down to drink
And doves sang in the sun.