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When I was eleven I realized that if God existed, it had to be outside. So I went early into nature and I have never left and I never will leave. That is the joy of nature, of seeing nature is all there is. That stayed with me, that I could go my own way, I could commune with the stars, the ploughs, the sky, the rivers, the rocks, and they never leave me and I never leave them.

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, feminist, womanist, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageExperience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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Connection with Nature