A July 4th Tribute

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A tanker ship on the Mississippi River glides past New Orleans, Louisiana (© AP Images/David J. Phillip).

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Whitman County, Washington

The farmers … are the founders of human civilization. -- Daniel Webster, statesman and orator

Farm and buildings in Whitman County, Washington (Terry Donnelly).

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Minnesota Indiana

Clockwise from upper left, soybeans in Indiana, wheat fields in Minnesota, corn plants in Minnesota (all © age fotostock/SuperStock).

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Texas Wyoming

Beauty in nature nourishes us and brings joy to

the human spirit. -- Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady, 1963-69

The state flower of Texas, the bluebonnet, blooms under an oak with another wildflower, the paintbrush (© Adam Jones/Danita Delimont); right, elk graze in Yellowstone National Park (© AP Images/ Kevork Djansezian).

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Arizona

Sunset over the Grand Canyon (Photo by Tim Brown).

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Navajo Nation

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Navajo Nation, which straddles parts of Arizona and Utah. (Photo by Tim Brown).

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New Mexico, Arizona, Utah

Top left, adobe house in New Mexico (Stockxpert); above left, rodeo competition in Arizona (© David H. Wells and Odyssey Productions, Inc.); center, Apache father and son in Arizona (© Jose Galvez/Photo Edit); right, barn in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah (Stockxpert).

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San Francisco, California

California dreamin’ …

-- Mamas and the Papas, ‘60s vocal group

The Golden Gate Bridge frames the San Francisco, California, skyline (Comstock).

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San Francisco, California

Clockwise from above, holiday banners in San Francisco’s Chinatown (© AP Images/Eric Risberg); beach near San Diego (© AP Images/Lenny Ignelzi); grapevines in Napa Valley (© 2007 Michael Melford).

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Oahu, Hawaii

Beauty is not caused. It is. -- Emily Dickinson, poet