(3)In the gardens and forests of this wonderful moraine one might spend a whole joyful life.
1 A rare orchid found in northern, mountainous areas.
2Also called Devil's Club, Echinopanax is a large-leafed shrub that grows in moist, dense forests mostly in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
3 Reference to Scottish poet, Robert Burns's poem that rejoices over the wide variety of positive traits in his wife.
4 Reference to a George Herbert poem that celebrates the glory found in nature and mourns the fact that it all must die.
The final sentence of the passage signals a shift from
a
scientific details to emotional lament
b
introspection to definition
c
narration to reflection
d
process to epiphany
e
description to analysis
