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- The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
- A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't…
- When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
- You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
- The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as…
- Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock…
- Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act.…
- Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls…
- Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old…
- It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice…
- I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
- Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring…
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds…
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of…
- Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
- There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what…
- When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out…
- Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
- But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and…
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