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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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