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Quote by Denise Levertov
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to ha

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. – Denise Levertov

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