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The Secret Christmas Library

by Jenny Colgan

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“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.”
― Joseph Boyden, The Orenda

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“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: god, religion

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“You look at woods full of aspen, and you think they’re like any other tree. You cut enough down and you clear the woods. But the aspen, they’re all connected to a root system. You can’t kill the thing by cutting one down, you have to pull the colony out by the roots,” Lewis said, and met her eyes. “The Company’s roots are so deep in Montana’s soil it would ruin the state to yank them out.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Boxcar Librarian

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