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Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. if we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. in nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. the whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... no claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
-Annie Dillard
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Nature Seems To Exult In Abounding Radicality,

Annie Dillard
Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. if we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. in nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. the whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... no claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
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