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Do not listen to her," Alaric said. "She is going to tell you in some kind of code only the two of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
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Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
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I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
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The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited… — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
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We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
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This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
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The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
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