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" Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. "

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" Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. "

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" Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? "

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" I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude. "

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" Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. "

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" The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. "

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