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Peach Blossom Paradise

by Ge Fei

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Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas

by Fernando A. Flores (Goodreads Author)

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We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

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“one does not have to become worms first but can change directly into a human being”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

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“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb

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“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nature's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”
― Lawrence Millman, Last Places: A Journey in the North

tags: nature, page-147

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“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.”
― Lawrence Millman, Last Places: A Journey in the North

tags: conservation, nature, page-191, polar-bears

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