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Working in my garden, getting my hands in the soil, contemplating the vivid green mating of sunlight and leaf, I become aware of interrelationships. I look up from where I sit in the dirt in my small garden plot and see the cottage I live in. It sits on Sausal creek. The creek draws a lot of birds--Bewick's wrens building a nest, towhees and robins, yellow and Townsend's warblers. Every morning a Hutton's vireo honors me with a visit outside the window of my study. These birds, their business and play in the world, their unique relationships to twig and creek and insect, each took 14 billion years of evolution to shape. I feel the awesome fact that all of this results from the fact that photosynthesis was invented in a moment of grace when Earth was in her childhood.
 

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