One night, when the man had been making it sing like a leaf-storm in fall, ...

Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited

This is a free country.

There is a rich celebration of city-tough plants deliberately carried over from the days when the abandoned High Line bloomed untended with wild stipplings of red sumac, smoke bush, milkweed, echinacea and other self-seeding invaders.