The imagination cannot be exterminated. It just re-creates itself.

The imagination cannot be exterminated. It just re-creates itself.

Ginny Ruffner

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What turned up: Artist Ginny Ruffner Reimagines Nature, Smithsonian American Art Museum, June 25, 2019; Two consecutive complete sentences in Ruffner’s attributed statement about Reforestation of the Imagination. Full Smithsonian article read; original interview not separately checked. Whole underlying statement: 9
Work: Artist Ginny Ruffner Reimagines Nature, Smithsonian American Art Museum, June 25, 2019
Sources checked: americanart.si.eduChecked using manual, 21 October 2026Artist Ginny Ruffner Reimagines Nature, Smithsonian American Art Museum, June 25, 2019; Two consecutive complete sentences in Ruffner’s attributed statement about Reforestation of the Imagination. Full Smithsonian article read; original interview not separately checked. Whole underlying statement: 9

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