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By KyleMoss500 BRONZE
Charlottetown, Other

What has cute little whiskers, a soft coat, loves to be cuddled and kills more than 1 billion birds each year? I’m talking about the domestic house cat. But this is not about the...
KyleMoss500 BRONZE, Charlottetown, Other
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I have congenital hunting fever and three sons. As little tots, they spent their time playing with my decoys and scouring vacant lots with wooden guns. I hope to leave them good health, an education, and possibly even a competence. But what are they going to do with these things if there be no more deer in the hills, and no more quail in the coverts? No more snipe whistling in the meadow, no more piping of widgeons and chattering of teal as darkness covers the marshes; no more whistling of swift wings when the morning star pales in the east? And when the dawn-wind stirs through the ancient cottonwoods and the gray light steals down from the hills over the old river sliding softly past its wide brown sandbars – what if there be no more goose music?
-Aldo Leopold


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By fcfdeer BRONZE
Scotch Plains, New Jersey
fcfdeer BRONZE, Scotch Plains, New Jersey
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and it never will."-Frederick Douglass

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By Nightshade BRONZE
Ringgold, Georgia
Nightshade BRONZE, Ringgold, Georgia
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistant one," - Albert Einstein.

RebeccaLaroche BRONZE, Manchester, Connecticut
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By jlw20 BRONZE
Hartland, Wisconsin
jlw20 BRONZE, Hartland, Wisconsin
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By jennifur GOLD
Youngstown, Pennsylvania
jennifur GOLD, Youngstown, Pennsylvania
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"even after all this time the sun never says to the earth 'you owe me.' see what happens with a love like that? it lights up the sky." -hafiz