Better than Nature

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“They have been with us a long time.

They will outlast the elms…

The Nature of our construction is in every way

A better fit than the Nature it displaces.’’

— From “Telephone Poles,’’ by John Updike (1932-2009), for decades America’s leading man of letters. He spent most of his adult life on Massachusetts’s North Shore.

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