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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Barbara Kingsolver

We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
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
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

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