Airplane Quote by Mary Oliver

“Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.”

Mary Oliver

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The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

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