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If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Whales
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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