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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
Author
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Earth
Full
Cruelty
Rabbit
Great
Fire
Bright
Kindly
Men
Eyes
Sea
Meadows
Dark
Mountain
Sharks
Eye
Green
Rabbits
Beautiful
Balance
Cruel
Hands
Dying
Mountains
Shrieks
Also
Terrible
Hidden
Clench

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