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A redwood has furrowed, fibrous bark, and a tall, straight trunk. It has soft, flat needles that become short and spiky near the top of the tree. The tree produces seeds but does not bear flowers. The seeds of a redwood are released from
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“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
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but in the silence between.”
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“It is like leaning over the edge of a canyon and feeling the wind whip by. Any illusions about your significance are wiped away; you realize how puny and inconsequential you are. And yet the beauty is so intoxicating that you only crave more. You long to have a bigger heart that could take it all in. That’s a taste of what “the fear of the Lord” means.”
― The Lost Gospel of Mary
― The Lost Gospel of Mary
“What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jessica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
344 books
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57 friends
860 books
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74 friends
540 books
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57 friends
825 books
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25 friends
258 books
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44 friends
586 books
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16 friends
1,053 books
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212 friends
1,913 books
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57 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, hiking, nature, geology, physics, astronomy, and cosmos
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