oil on canvas

36" x 36"

$2800, Sold

"With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in."

Excerpt from Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver. © 2002 Barbara Kingsolver. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.