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It Is Only By Knowing How Little Life Has In Store For Us That We Are Able To Look On The Bright Side And Avoid Disappointment.

Life May Take Away Happiness. But It Can't Take Away Having Had It.

What I Hated Even More Than The Conflict Was The Lurid Spectacle Of A World Of Unreason.

It Is Lovely, When I Forget All Birthdays, Including My Own, To Find That Somebody Remembers Me.

. . . Every Tree Near Our House Had A Name Of Its Own And A Special Identity. This Was The Beginning Of My Love For Natural Things, For Earth And Sky, For Roads And Fields And Woods, For Trees And Grass And Flowers; A Love Which Has Been Second Only To My Sense Of Enduring Kinship With Birds And Animals, And All Inarticulate Creatures.