WolfCounselor spent the last day of first decade of the 21st century at the Des Moines Botanical Center. Strolling through the vegetation on a bitterly cold New Year's Eve, the poem "Garden Sanctuary" by Doxis Palmer best captured the experience:
Maybe with troubled thoughts,
Come, enter here and rest;
And may the sweet serenity of growing things,
And the heavenly peace,
Be mirrored in thy soul.