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• You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the…
• The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then…
• If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in…
• One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
• There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
• You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
• It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
• If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work…
• The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the…
• Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its…
• We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
• Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at…

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