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Nathaniel, regarding him with a contemptuous eye, said that a real English Christmas meant, in his experience, a series of quarrels between inimical persons bound to one another only by the accident of relationship, and thrown together by a
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“he committed himself again to using this experience as an opportunity to refocus on a central tenet of his philosophy, gaman, living patiently through a hard time, waiting until he could go home to his wife.”
― Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
― Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events—the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.”
― The Summer Book
― The Summer Book
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. —Carl Jung”
― The Things We Never Say
― The Things We Never Say
“Autumn is when Ardnakelty comes into its own. Its summers and winters are half-assed by Cal’s standards, but autumn is meant for nuance and there this place is expert, layering the air with the smells of earth and wet leaves, shading the land with every subtlety of green and gold, coding its weather hints in the slightest twist of breeze or shift of cloud. The last geese, straggling southward, send up their forlorn clamor.”
― The Keeper
― The Keeper
“Earth Day sermon, “The Stump and Us,” began: In a forest in Ireland sits the eight-foot-wide stump of what was, fifty years ago, a mighty beech. This stump has no limbs or branches, which means it has no leaves to photosynthesize and feed itself. By all accounts, this stump should be dead and rotting. Yet sap still runs through its grain and oozes in any cut. The bark is yearly renewed. This stump lives on because the surrounding trees—and not just its sister beeches—supply life-giving nutrients through their roots….”
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