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Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

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To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John Haines

John Haines

Born: June 29, 1924
Died: March 2, 2011 (aged 86)
Bio: John Meade Haines was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.
Known for:
  1. The stars, the snow, the fire (1989)
  2. The owl in the mask of the dreamer (1993)
  3. At the end of this summer (1997)
  4. Fables and distances (1996)
  5. For the century's end (2001)

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