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    Norton Juster
    “Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely.

    "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does."

    Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again.

    "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex.

    "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    Mary Roach
    “Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology.”
    ― Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
    tags: californians, lions, mammograms, mountain-lion, nature, screening, security-cameras, suburbs, surveillance, wildlife
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    Nigel Poor
    “If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do that. So I'd have to be a vegetarian dragon; a thin dragon, because I'd spend a lot of time looking for food. That's a ton of carrots, apples, oranges...Unless I was a tiny, baby dragon. Then I'd just need, like, a little slice of cheese.”
    ― Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
    tags: childhood, dragons, food, imaginary-friends, metabolism, protection, rauch-draper, vegetarianism
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Tig would have fit on that plane just fine. Tig, Art, Takis, these anomalous, scrappy survivors, might be the lucky ones. They ate less and took up less space: the humans of the future.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
    tags: air-travel, consumption, evolution, food, food-production, future, obesity, survival, survival-of-the-fittest, survivors
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    “Work should be about finding the daily lesson in one's self as well as providing one's daily bread.”
    ― Larry a Lee, The Federal Plantation: A Tale of Subjugation and Injustice
    tags: career, federal-service, inspirational, job, lesson, life-lessons, meaningful-work, service, work
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    Conor Knighton
    “Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived.”
    ― Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
    tags: buffalo-soldier, diversity, national-parks, park-ranger, shelton-johnson, yosemite, yosemite-national-park
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    “Water problems in the western United States, when viewed from afar, can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: all we need to do is turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers.”
    ― David Owen, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
    tags: almonds, colorado-river, conservation, farming, las-vegas, lawyers, water
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    Peggy Orenstein
    “The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think.”
    ― Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
    tags: bodega-pastures, farm, hazel-flett, national-parks, natural-beauty, nature, signage, signs, sonoma, sonoma-county
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    Conor Knighton
    “In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national park, maybe you just have poor judgement skills.”
    ― Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
    tags: cursed, judgement, misfortune, national-parks, petrified-forest-national-park, petrified-wood, theft, thieves
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    Kelly Ramsey
    “I wasn't even sure what "go available" meant. But I knew I was a rookie and that I should be afraid.”
    ― Kelly Ramsey, Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West
    tags: experience, fire-season, hotshots, rookie, wildland-firefighting
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