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"The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."

"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"

"Mountains in the distance remind me of you."

"No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance."

"He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.."
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"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance."

"The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich."

"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body."

"An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity."

"When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas."

"Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds."
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