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“Broken tree branches
Scattered flowers
Bent street light poles
Cut electricity lines
Dead birds
But the weather is beautiful, and the breeze is refreshing…
My heart is full of an after-storm peace and tranquility…
The real tranquility is the one that follows not precedes the storm…
(July 1, 2015)”
― أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]
Scattered flowers
Bent street light poles
Cut electricity lines
Dead birds
But the weather is beautiful, and the breeze is refreshing…
My heart is full of an after-storm peace and tranquility…
The real tranquility is the one that follows not precedes the storm…
(July 1, 2015)”
― أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]
“When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.”
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Sometimes a great storm comes upon you so suddenly, so quickly, so cruelly that there is no time to run or think, all you have to do is turn towards it and stand firm in the face of this suddenly uninvited fate!”
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“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
― Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― The Sound of Mountain Water
― The Sound of Mountain Water
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