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DNFing this. I hate to do it because I love the characters so much, and this is very in the vein of “Ions Iverson’s Rules for Commuting.” But the writing style is grating, especially when it comes to the point of view of Denise’s young daughter. The
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“Every unjust social institution in history seemed permanent until it was imagined otherwise.”
― See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
― See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“I do not owe my opponents my affection, warmth, or regard. But I do owe myself a chance to live in this world without the burden of hate.”
― See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
― See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“If you wish to bludgeon badgers or beavers or remove peregrine falcons and hen harrier chicks from their nests, a way can be found. If you wish, on the other hand, to restore fading species for nature conservation purposes, then you have to fill in 90-page documents which will be thoroughly scrutinized eventually and returned to you with a further suite of impossibly complex questions.”
― Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species
― Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species
“This life is beautiful, but there is no such beauty in eternity; its glory is only because it ends.”
― Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden
― Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden
“Moles are tiny, they are cute, and like the rest of nature they do not care what we feel. They are devastating, and they always win.”
― How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature
― How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature
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