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...left behind. Part of that is fun - [seeing] what it takes for New York City to turn back into a forest. And the other part is all the toxins, poisons, carbon dioxides - how long would it take for all that to get reabsorbed, and for nature to really heal itself? - which is really the meat of this book: a backward way of looking at what we do by looking at what nature would do if we weren't here doing it anymore...
...your daughter Belinda were killed in Nepal in '75 - an airplane accident - it was of course hard to recover from that? Well, of course it was tremendously difficult. It changed everything. My life disappeared, and I did drift for a time. I didn't really believe that time would heal the loss. But after five or six years I found I was getting interested in some new things. Time did heal things. But things have always remained different...
...which they have expertise and experience. The so-called de-Baathification of the Iraqi government after the fall of Saddam contributed significantly to the violent sectarian divisions of the country as well as to a collapse in the way the country was run. The new law is meant heal the rift between the Shi'ites who now dominate the government and the Sunnis who used to. "I come with an upbeat message," Bush said at the news of the passage of the Accountability and Justice law. It is, he said, "an important step towards reconciliation... an important sign that...
...members of organized religions are trapped in this cycle of psychobabble, then there isn’t much hope for anyone else. Events like “Confessions”—and moreover, our modern fixation with openness and dialogue—may hurt us more than heal us. Our impulse is to discuss, discuss, and discuss some more so that we may rationalize and reason. But sometimes coping with a misery entails quietness and inner reflection. And of course, there is the truth that so few wish to recognize: Sometimes, there is no warm glow...
...frenzy that then greeted Obama, nearly four hours after the crowd had lined up outside the arena, was full of awe and hysteria. A lot people get excited to shake a politician's hand; not so many greet one as though he were about to heal them by laying his on them...