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What I continue to prize most, though, are the reconnections with people, places, and times otherwise lost to me. That’s a power of plants my old botany professor could never have imagined.
“How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond.
"How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
"You were asleep, too?"
"Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”
― Throne of Glass
"How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks.
"You were asleep, too?"
"Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”
― Throne of Glass
“We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. It is impossible to understand man without understanding his environment and the forces that have molded him physically and mentally.”
― On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
― On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
“The exceeding beauty of the earth, in her splendour of life, yields a new thought with every petal. The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live.… This is real life, and all else is illusion, or mere endurance.”
― On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
― On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
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Love Never Forgets is an opportunity to share thoughts on the novel The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth, now available in hardcover. Stay tuned for ...more
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This is mainly for recommendations and discussing books.
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