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[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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