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“Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.”
“Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”
“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.”
“He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.”
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”
“Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they ...”
“The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith i...”
