Word: earths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scores of kids did just that. Entries, many illustrated and written in a child's hand, funneled in from across the country, describing a wide range of Earth-friendly enterprises...
...morning, sets off toward central Washington to shoot himself. Almost instantly, though, he smashes his car and, surviving by a miracle, finds himself a scary-looking vagabond on the loose. All he has to sustain him are the kindness of strangers and the resources of his spirit and the earth...
...stumbles through the autumn landscape--"the prairie smelled of sage and of the dampness held in the earth"--he goes back in memory to his boyhood days of picking apples, his teenage courtship of Rachel, his service in Italy during World War II. Though the narrative is as vagrant as Snow Falling on Cedars was rooted, Guterson's gift for spinning atmospheric spells has not deserted him, and moment after moment flashes into life with the quick vividness of a photograph: the men in war going out "in mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly...
...advice and, I hoped, a convincing argument to back out of this arrangement, I called George Plimpton, who spent a season training as a goalie with the Boston Bruins for his 1985 book, Open Net. "Hockey players are the greatest cats on earth," he said Plimptonly. He then recounted his own experiences and lacerations. "I envy you," he said. "You'll have a lot of fun. Maybe you won't have so much fun. I don't know...
...interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. --Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species...