"I don't know many people who didn't grow up on a farm who have much of a sense of nature, sensitive to nature in quite the same way I am...although I don't talk about it that much with people so I'm not sure that's true. But I'm always aware of the change of the seasons, I look forward to the change of the seasons...the weather, I'm always very conscious of how the weather changes and even though I'm insulated from a lot of that today, I'm more aware of it because I look for it...I look for the changes. There are some things that I just don't ever forget. Like there was a certain kind of wind in March that would blow around the house that would sound very mournful and it used t o depress me even when I was very young and that was the time of year I liked because it meant spring was coming. I can remember hearing the wind moan around the chimney at the corner of the house in a way that it never did any other time of year and I'll never forget that. And I just remember being out in the garden getting ready to plant things and the smell of the earth when it was plowed up, feeling it bare feet under you feet, the grass...and it's just a very intense feeling that has always stayed with me."
