The forest eats itself and lives forever
("The Poisonwood Bible")
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In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.Barbara Kingsolver
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
Barbara Kingsolver
For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still.
Barbara Kingsolver
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