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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

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“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

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“Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate pleased, the mind is intrigued by the triumph of ingenuity over scarcity - by the making of slight materials into a considerable matter. A man can do worse than to be poor. He can miss altogether the sight of the greatness of small things.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

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