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"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."
"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."
"Custom is second nature."
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."
"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"
"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."
"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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