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“I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.”
Roger Deakin“I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.”
Roger Deakin“Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!”
Helen Deakin“Every second of every moment should be cherished. Life is beautiful”
it is a gift and it has an expiry date.“But perhaps his outstanding contribution to Australian politics was that, after a lifetime of switching sides, he put in place the basic two-party structure we have today: Labor versus anti-Labor. The anti-Labor parties have had many names, but always the same policy: to keep Labor out of office.”
Mungo MacCallum“All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.”
William Carlos Williams“In the kitchen, her family nibbled Helen’s lemon squares. Melanie urged brownies on the nurses. “Take these,” she told Lorraine. “We can’t eat them all, but Helen won’t stop baking.”“Sweetheart,” Lorraine said, “everybody mourns in her own way.”Helen mourned her sister deeply. She arrived each day with shopping bags. Her cake was tender with sliced apples, but her almond cookies crumbled at the touch. Her pecan bars were awful, sticky-sweet and hard enough to break your teeth. They remained untouched in the dining room, because Helen never threw good food away.”
Allegra Goodman, Apple Cake“I am woman, hear me roar.”
Helen Reddy“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...”
Helen Keller“A woman's voice answered, "Hello?"Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!""This is a recording," recited the woman's voice. "Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool so she may call you when she returns? Hello? This is a recording. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message -"He hung up.He sat with his mouth twitching.On second thought he redialed that number."When Miss Helen Arasumian comes home," he said, "tell her to go to hell.”
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles“Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.”
Helen Reddy