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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

Barbara Kingsolver

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

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