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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain…
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Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it…
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Don't waste hate on pink geranium.
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In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
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All we are asked to bear we can bear.
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Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith…
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The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying…
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world.…
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There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much…
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She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to…
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry…
— Margaret Fuller
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The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can…
— Russell Page
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and…
— Mary Oliver
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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
— Bill Bryson
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part,…
— Elizabeth Moon
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and…
— Mary Oliver
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