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Topic: Resilience

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built

by Becky Chambers

“It is difficult for anyone born and raised in human infrastructure to truly internalize the fact that your view of the world is backward… even if you know that the wilderness is the default state of things…. you will still struggle to understand that human constructs are carved out, and overlaid, that these are the places that are the in-between, not the other way around.”

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Big Tree

by Brian Selznick

“Merwin. All life is in danger. Remember, life began as a gift, and it must always be treated as such. No matter how unstoppable the danger seems, no matter how unavoidable, there’s always something you can do.”

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Love Grows Everywhere

by Barry Timms

“Love grows everywhere… / from country farm to city square. / From desert village, hot and dry, / to mountain home where eagles fly.”

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Pilu of the Woods

by Mai K. Nguyen

“We gotta be careful not to hurt the things around us, because nothing’s really gone forever… everything leaves a little mark”

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Rooftop Garden

by Danna Smith

“A rooftop garden is what we need / Friends and family all agree. / A garden starts with hardy seeds. / A rooftop garden is what we need.”

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Saving American Beach

by Heidi Tyline King

“MyVanee was saving more than a beach.”

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The Coquíes Still Sing

by Karina Nicole González

“He hands me a fistful of vegetable seeds and says, ‘This is our gold’.”

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The Getaway

by Lamar Giles

“So many times in history it’s the youth who see the clearest and can save the day”.

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The History of Bees

by Maja Lunde

“But bees cannot be tamed. They can only be tended, receive our care.”

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The Raven’s Song

by Bren MacDibble, Zana Fraillon

“Yes, I know people in the old days lived in giant mega-cities smothered in dirty clouds … and parts of the honoured and natural world died and the seas rose and we invaded the wild areas and new diseases took hold and killed most of their children and now we have to stay in our townships and keep our hair short and our hands clean and not make a peep of pollution and not increase our numbers even by one. … Three hundred and fifty kind, ethical, truthful people on seven hundred hectares or not at all.”

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