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“Any environment, any single life is in a continuous state of change. This is just more obvious when you pay attention to earthworms. Their work may seem unspectacular at first. They don't chirp or sing, they don't gallop or soar, they don't hunt or make tools or write books. But they do something just as powerful: they consume, they transform, they change the earth.”

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Book:The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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“But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stretch of freshly turned dirt, a handful of seeds scratched into the surface, and a marker to remember where they went. It is at the same time an incredibly brave and an incredibly simple thing to do, entrusting your seeds to the earth and waiting for them to rise up out of the ground to meet you.”

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Book:From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
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“I believe that answers your questions,” Sheriff Heath said, returning to his seat. A brawny Italian man in the back of the room said, “No, sir, I didn’t get an answer to my question about marriage proposals.” I jumped up before Sheriff Heath could. These reporters needed to see that I could speak for myself. “The presence or absence of suitors in the lives of the Kopp sisters has no bearing on this matter,” I told them, “and I see no men here today who would stand a chance with any one of us.”

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“If you allow a creek to go back to being a creek, if you let the trees and the bramble get overgrown, and you let the stream overrun its banks whenever it wants to, the wetland will take care of itself. The water that trickles into the ocean will be clean and pristine if everything is just left alone to work the way it was designed to work. Earthworms have shown that they can take care of the soil in the same way that a wetland takes care of the water. Nature regenerates. It Cleans. It hides a multitude of sins.”

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Book:The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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“They are near the bottom of the food chain - a meal for fish and birds - while humans eat from the top of the food chain, consuming an astonishing array of what lies on the planet. But eventually, even we become food for the worms. Shakespeare saw this connection, writing in Hamlet, "A man may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of a fish that hath fed of that worm.”

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