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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.”
― The Wilderness World of John Muir
― The Wilderness World of John Muir
“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.”
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.”
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And dies if one be gone.
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.”
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“Men know how to read printed books; they do not know how to read the unprinted ones. They can play on a stringed harp, but not on a stringless one. Applying themselves to the superficial instead of the profound, how should they understand music or poetry?
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From the Saikontan, by Kojisei (circa 1600) cited in Haiku by Robert Blyth, circa 1947 Tokyo, p. 73.”
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Dorothy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dorothy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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79 friends
771 books
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13 books
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128 books
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28 books
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48 books
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53 friends
379 books
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