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• ‟ The Indians seemed to be living in a place and in a way that was of immense importance to me. So I associate learning to read - English, oddly enough - with wanting to know about Indians. I'm still growing into it. I've never outgrown that.

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• ‟ The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know rather than what I do know.

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• ‟ The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech. It was something that had a certain formality, something in which the words were of interest in themselves.

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• ‟ The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

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• ‟ What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.

  - W. S. Merwin