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> [“I could not separate the Bird Refuge from my family. Devastation respects no boundaries. The landscape of my childhood and the landscape of my family, the two things I had always regarded as bedrock, were now subject to change. Quicksand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-could-not-separate-the-bird-refuge-from-my-family-devastation/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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> [A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/a-man-can-t-make-a-place-for-himself-in-the-sun-if-he-keeps-taking/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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