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“Over and over in the butterfly we see the idea of transcendence. In the forest we see not the inert but the aspiring. In water that departs forever and forever returns, we experience eternity.”

“The world’s otherness/i<> is antidote to confusion, that standing within/i<> this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the field or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”