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“There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.”
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.”
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
Ethnobotany
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Exploring the relationship between people and plants.
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