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"A sullied green 'S stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland."
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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment."

"It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. Tomorrow " when mankind will step forward to a totally uncertain future " will be too late."

"We need to consciously remember that we have more responsibility to protect our planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live."

"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."

"It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding."

"The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility. Its fertility is always building up out of death into promise. Death is the bridge or the tunnel by which its past enters its future."

"I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand."

"The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships."

"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."
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"Took long enough, she called out, not wanting to admit how the sight of him made her throat hitch, how the man was so gorgeous she lost her mind. 'I thought you drowned in the mirror from staring into your reflection too long."

"Flirt with the old ladies and you'll be fine, I muttered, shoving my stuff into the cubby. He hung his green hoodie on the hooks right beside me. 'Is that how you get by? 'Doesn't work on the old ladies for me, but the old men on the other hand? I paused and glanced at my nails. 'Yeah, doesn't work on them either."

"My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more."

"While the club - kid lifestyle might've once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn't dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold."

"If you're supposed to work with someone, I'd recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was 'tense."

"The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of 'Take to the Sky, but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain."

"Geoff's arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S. British - Craphole."

"Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee."

"He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy."
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