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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They…
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I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air,…
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I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has…
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As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon…
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
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When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip…
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His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They…
— Willie Morris
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And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
— James Russell Lowell
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She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the…
— Charles Portis
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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches…
— Samuel Palmer
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In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell…
— David Richo
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John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar…
— Edmund Spenser
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