"exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange."

-- Stephen Dunn

#Rain Quotes #Sunset Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.”
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
“Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.”
“I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong.”
“things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.37, Feminist Press at CUNY
“The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.”
“Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.”
“Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting hydrogen powers all vehicles. Sunlight and wind generate the hydrogen. Note the earth-covered bridges, the continuous window bands, the wind machines across the farmlands. In this new America, everything is reused, recycled, conserved.”

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