Athletic Fields And Golf Courses Excepted, The Out-of-doors Wears An Evil Aspect, Dominated As It Is By Insects And The Brainless Proliferation Of Vegetable Forms.

Athletic Fields And Golf Courses Excepted, The Out-of-doors Wears An Evil Aspect, Dominated As It Is By Insects And The Brainless Proliferation Of Vegetable Forms.

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Athletic fields and golf courses excepted, the out-of-doors wears
an evil aspect, dominated as it is by insects and the brainless
proliferation of vegetable forms.
-- John Updike (from "A month of Sundays")

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