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“In nature nothing exists alone.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: life, living, resilience

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“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it, the maddest fanatic beating an Orange drum about the Battle of the Boyne is a better philosopher than he.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Irish Impressions

tags: catholic, catholicism, religion

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“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth

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“As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

tags: chemicals, life, nature

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