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51,595. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger’s admiration – and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go. (Weather & New England) Mark Twain
82,892. New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. Henry Cabot Lodge
82,893. Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. Caleb Cushing
82,894. What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing. Willem Lange
97,262. New England – home to the most colorful forest in America stretching across six states from Maine in the north to Connecticut in the South. Every year millions of people flock here to witness one of the planet’s greatest spectacles. (Tree & New England & Earth & Forest) Earth’s Greatest Spectacles I: New England, BBC 2016