How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature
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Every small step we take on this earth has consequences and each evening when I get home I scrub out from under my nails the messy business of birth and sex and death and decay and I try to wash it all away.
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No living thing is ever perfectly symmetrical, and imperfection is where beauty is found.
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We all do what we want to do, and we rationalise it afterwards.
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Once you experience this feeling of simply existing you lose the need to ask why you exist.
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I don’t know how far I walked because if you are measuring you are not walking.
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As a gardener I do not dig any more: I hoe off the weeds and top-dress the gardens in the autumn with compost just as nature does with falling leaves and grasses.
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The only permanent things about man are his waste.
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I was born a long way from where I am now.
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In the north of England and Scotland they do not ask where you live, or where you come from: they ask, ‘Where do you stay?’ as if living somewhere were just a stop on a journey, as if we were all travellers.
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they make no plans for the future yet they prepare for winter
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There is no avoiding sadness in life, although it seems that happiness is easier to avoid.
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There is something deeply magnificent in being just ordinary.
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Life is so full of mystery, answers are so few, I do not trust them. I prefer unanswered questions. At the end of the answers there is usually a person who enjoys the power of appearing to know. I have come to like things that are left unfinished. It’s the question that shines the light, that seeks. The answer’s often just a dim reflection of the vastness of the question. There are no answers that satisfy.
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Killing a living thing should not be cheap or slow.
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Everything has its end and each thing carries the beginning of the next thing.
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Scar tissue is an inevitable part of life.
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crave the company of human beings, even though I am nervous about how to relate to them.
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The small things are the things which in their millions make the world work.