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Fire and Water

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Esther Chase

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If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. —Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Listening

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Esther Chase

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Perhaps the greatest difficulty in listening to the prairie—or any part of nature—is that we must come in humility, even vulnerability.

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Humility

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Esther Chase

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“…even in the presence of the least petal and the slimmest grass blade, we are but humble guests of the grassland.”

Category: Quotes, Reading Tags: humility, naturalists, prairie