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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind…
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If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life…
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I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the…
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A language Older Than Words
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A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings,…
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By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to…
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When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from…
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I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not…
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Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come…
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If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting…
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From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
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I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.
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I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep…
— Mackenzie Foy
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it…
— John Marsden
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It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.
— Jimi Hendrix
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And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise…
— Clive Barker
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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer…
— Heinrich Heine
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking,…
— Ziggy Marley
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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of…
— Victor Hugo
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He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of…
— Tom Robbins
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I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together…
— Philip Pullman
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Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters…
— Diane Ackerman
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Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.
— Kobayashi Issa
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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
— Janet Fitch
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