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We are no more and no less than the life that surrounds us. My fears surface in my isolation. My serenity surfaces in my solitude.
“...as time went on and autumn passed and winter came with its beautiful bare-limbed trees, and soft pearl-grey skies the were slashed with rifts of gold in the afternoons, and cleared to a jewelled pageantry of stars over the wide white hills and valleys around New Moon.”
― Emily of New Moon
― Emily of New Moon
“To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered is to be renewed. To be in want is to possess. To have plenty is to be confused,” Lao Tzu wrote.”
― Islands, the Universe, Home
― Islands, the Universe, Home
“When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“How beautiful it was, lying embowered in the twilight of the old trees; the tips of the loftiest spruces came out in purple silhouette against the north-western sky of rose an amber; down behind it the Blair Water dreamed in silver; the Wind Woman had folded her misty bat-wings in a valley of sunset and stillness lay over the world like a blessing.”
― Emily of New Moon
― Emily of New Moon
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A group of like-minded readers out to save some of America's best places, (i.e. local independent bricks-and-mortar bookstores and cafes) by purchasin ...more
Vintage YA: For fans of the classic realistic young adult novels of yesteryear
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For readers and collectors of YA novels from the 60s, 70s, and 80s (and 90s? Vintage? Ack.) Does your heart flutter a little when you catch sight of a ...more
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