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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
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 live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
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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Animal Love Making Photography
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water

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