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Article: The great festival of life
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- Herald Express (Torquay UK)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2009
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April comes from the Latin aperire which means opening, as of a
leaf.
The green creeping across the countryside and through the suburbs
is accompanied by bird song.
From the sluices of Slapton Ley to the tributaries of South
Devon's rivers, hundreds of thousands of elvers battle upstream
after that Homeric crossing of the Atlantic from the Sargasso.
Everything in Nature is life-orientated.
Sun on hawthorn leaves, bird song, the wild flowers of hedge
bank, woodland and field corners, and swallows on the wing. And
maybe we will be lucky enough to hear a cuckoo calling.
Yawn-provoking, provincial yokel hokum? Maybe, if you're a city-
bound dead head.
Pot-bellied egos tend to band together in ...