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  1. Susan Vreeland _ The Forest Lover

    Paint a self-portrait, for our parlor. I want to see that one eyebrow permanently arched, permanently skeptical-the look of someone who doesn't suffer prudes easily.
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  2. Susan Vreeland _ The Forest Lover

    at age seventy-four, she was asked what had been the outstanding events of her life. She responded, "Work and more work! . . . loving everything terrifically. . . . The outstanding event to me is the doing-which I am still at.
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  3. Susan Vreeland _ The Forest Lover

    put herself back together again and again. She would drink the forest liquids and drench herself in possibility.
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  4. Susan Vreeland _ The Forest Lover

    Has it ever occurred to you that to clutch at life fearfully, unwilling to spend it, is not a form of gratitude to God for life?" Lizzie looked at her as if pained by some bright light. "But to fling one's whole being at a goal of interpreting God's creation-
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  5. Susan Vreeland _ The Forest Lover

    Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
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  6. Susan Vreeland _ The Forest Lover

    Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.
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  7. Susan Vreeland _ The Forest Lover

    She sat very still, listening to a stream gurgling, the breeze soughing through upper branches, the melodious kloo-klack of ravens, the nyeep-nyeep of nuthatches - all sounds chokingly beautiful. She felt she could hear the cool clean breath of growing things - fern fronds, maple leaves, white trillium petals, tree trunks, each in its rightful place.
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