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“If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.”

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The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it. The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you…

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A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals…

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A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our…

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Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

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I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

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Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an…

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We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

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The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

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Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

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