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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I…
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good…
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside…
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits…
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,…
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when…
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In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly…
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It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
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Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
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Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
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If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing…
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Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,…
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