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Small children hum like cats when they eat. This memory is worth recovering.

freddie yam

The sky was the colour of a cut lime that had sat in the refrigerator in a plastic container for thirty-two days.

mary ruefle

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it and depending on it, can still ripen grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.

galileo galilei

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

tom robbins

My wife is in the sewage treatment profession. She has become somewhat famous for giving speeches at conventions of Engineers and Professionals in the industry which are considered shocking and radical, but entertaining, so they keep asking her back. The gist of her talks comes down to one simple point. It can be summarized as, “There is no away.” As in it is delusional thinking to assume that something undesirable can be thrown away, or something toxic can be taken away, or something unwanted can be removed. Everything remains here on earth and just gets moved around.

comment on ecosophia

The Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. For more battery operated lanterns that the West buys to try to scare away the darkness that is approaching it in this present civilizational decline, all of them will be “made in China”.

some forum

Stop thinking this is all there is.

wanderer

Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at, night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

ben okri

Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work overtime to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.

deborah levy