There was a field of wild grass, and then a fence and then another field, and then the interstate connecting Albuquerque with El Paso.

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It was a fitting finale to the journey: Turkey's eastern border, perhaps to be Europe's new eastern frontier, ancient churches and mosques rising like tombstones out of the long wild grass.

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During the long, 540km bus trip east along the coast from Cide to the small seaside city of Ordu, the landscape transitions from dense green forestland to rolling plains with gorgeous yellow sunflower fields to meadows dotted with wild purple grass.

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Harvesting wild rice, really an aquatic grass unrelated to rice, is so labor-intensive and the rice so fragile that it's expensive outside Minnesota.

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The wild-card party of Beppe Grillo, the grass-roots Five-Star Movement, will also not enter into an alliance.

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But you would eat grass probably for lunch, and then probably for supper you would eat the wild spinach.

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But this Saturday, we all later agreed, was the first day of summer: the smell of plowed fields and first-cut grass, the river flushed by rains, its banks covered with ferns and May apples and early wild flowers, dame's rocket and white trillium.

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