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"My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am."
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"What...what about when I'm married?'We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits."
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"He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough. He pulled out his book."
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"Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it."
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"Where ever you are accepted, stay there."
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"It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy."
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"The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!"
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"And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped."
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"Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do...well, you can't. Sorry about that."
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"Go where the situation takes you, but never forget where you came from, where you belong and the direction of where you entered in."
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"To be is to belong."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."
Evolution

"Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again."
Nature

"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
Anxiety

"Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward."
Imagination

"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."
Environment

"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification."
Change

"Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist."
Life

"Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share."
Behavior

"Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically."
Nature
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