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“Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven, t...”
“The heron must be used to people, and yet it never lets you get too close. Draw parallel to it with the width of one of the marshs holding ponds between you, and it will duck its head, eyeing you w...”
“Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
“Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the ...”
“The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.”
“You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.”
