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Real World
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These things - everlasting flight, a self-galvanizing heart, a baby who learns names in the womb - sound like fables we tell children. But it's only that the real world is so startling that our capacity for wonder, huge as it is, can barely skim the edges of the truth.
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― Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
― Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
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Now that I was living closer to
nature, I realized that this was the real world, very
different from the man-made world of automobiles,
computers and skyscrapers. Man was a god of sorts
in his own sphere, but on a lovely mountainside he
is no more important than an ant—and not half as
industrious!
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― The Beauty of All My Days: A Memoir [Hardcover] RUSKIN BOND
― The Beauty of All My Days: A Memoir [Hardcover] RUSKIN BOND















































