The most impressive thing about the sun isn't what it does to the sky at sunrise and sunset' all that orange and red and purple and pink' but rather what it does to the pines, the most boring of all trees, of all things found in nature, all those little green needles, caught glowing like prairie-fire, blue columbine, and lupine in early spring mornings, blooming among aspens flowering catkins in meadows beside rivers of alpine water rushing from the thaw, all while juncos and chickadees and hermit thrush join in a litany of birdsong.
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