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... kind of discovery , a new kind of knowledge . - I come to the ruby - crowned kinglet . Birds belong where one finds them . The first time I heard a kinglet sing was in mid - April at the west end of Ho - nee - um Pond in the Arboretum ...
... kind of discovery , a new kind of knowledge . - I come to the ruby - crowned kinglet . Birds belong where one finds them . The first time I heard a kinglet sing was in mid - April at the west end of Ho - nee - um Pond in the Arboretum ...
Page 92
... kind , but the lighter kind that softens outlines and changes perspectives , the kind in which the far shoreline is lost but Maple Bluff and Picnic Point are left , to stand like headlands between bay and an imagined open ocean beyond ...
... kind , but the lighter kind that softens outlines and changes perspectives , the kind in which the far shoreline is lost but Maple Bluff and Picnic Point are left , to stand like headlands between bay and an imagined open ocean beyond ...
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... kind I spoke of at the beginning , the kind which shuts us in a circle not much beyond arm's reach , can be either so terrifying or so liberating , is that it so nearly destroys the sensory context we move about in every day . We are ...
... kind I spoke of at the beginning , the kind which shuts us in a circle not much beyond arm's reach , can be either so terrifying or so liberating , is that it so nearly destroys the sensory context we move about in every day . We are ...
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