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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Childhood
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Nov 07, 2020

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Beautiful Country
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Nov 07, 2020

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Language
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Nov 07, 2020

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Live
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Nov 07, 2020

We live on the leash of our senses.

Money
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Nov 07, 2020

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

My Own
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Interfere
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Nov 07, 2020

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Animals
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Nov 07, 2020

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Fall
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Nov 07, 2020

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Nov 07, 2020

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

Need
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Nov 07, 2020

We embrace two-legged beings, and can warm to four-legged beings, too, but for most people, six legs is pushing it. Most don't need multi-eyed, antennaed face time.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

Nov 07, 2020

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

Escape
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Nov 07, 2020

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Gland
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Nov 07, 2020

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

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