"Is it not meningitis?"

-- Louisa May Alcott

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“It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.”
“It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.”
“Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”
“I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an amazing place, because there was so much music going on there. As a kid, I was playing there all the time and learning a lot about music.”
“To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.”
“Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.”
“The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.”
“I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.”

Source : "The lie of the land" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2007.

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