We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not … - Jerry Spinelli

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Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

Jerry Spinelli

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy. " Her ways knocked us off balance.

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if you learn to hate one or two persons. . . you'll soon hate millions of people.

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Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

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How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

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A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can't seem to make up it's mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake.

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