"Gigantic second and third growth trees are found……" — John Muir

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• Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and… — Kathleen Raine
• In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams… — Zygmunt Bauman
• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father… — Mark Twain
• I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force… — Emily Dickinson
• My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put… — Jamie Oliver
• I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I… — Jill Scott
• The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney."… — Lorrie Moore
• Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves… — Cormac McCarthy
• Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge… — Agatha Christie
• Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of… — Arundhati Roy
• Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his… — Stuart Hill

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