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Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.
Jane Hirshfield
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Jane Hirshfield
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: February 24
Climate Activist
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as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
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