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At this hour, this still early hour, I think I am the field, I am the barn, I am the trees; mine are the flocks of birds, and this young hare who leaps, at the last moment when I step almost on him. Mine is the heron that stretches its vast ...more

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“It crackled like an inferno; it danced as only supernatural beings know how to dance, its body proliferating around its immobility; it swayed in a twisting of scarves, so quivering, so bronze, so indefatigably remolded by the euphoria of its body that you could no longer tell if it was anchored by the clinging of its prodigious roots or by the meticulous speed of the tip of the spinning top on which the gods take their rest.”
― Jean Giono, Un roi sans divertissement

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“Is this where they will be when they are no more among us? On this savannah in the sleep of men and women? Will children, in a thousands years, dream of the cheetah, of the elephant, as children now dream of dragons? Mammals began in the time of the dinosaurs. That's why the dragon is so strong an image to us: the first mammals, the first warm blooded creatures, the first capable of love as we know it, as we and the chimpanzee and the tiger know it, those first mammals' brains were seared so deeply by the image of the enormous dinosaurs that even millions of years of evolution later that image lived in the human dream as dragons - lived thus before archeologists began to unearth the fossils. So one day we will find the giraffe on the savannah of dream.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

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