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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Barbara Kingsolver

A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

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