# Quote — Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

> ...Then they grow away from the earth
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> then they grow away from the sun
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> then they grow away from the plants and the animals.
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> They see no life
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> When they look
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> they see only objects.
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> The world is a dead thing for them
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> the trees and the rivers are not alive.
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> the mountains and stones are not alive.
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> The deer and bear are objects
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> They see no life. They fear
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> They fear the world.
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> They destroy what they fear.
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> They fear themselves...

- Author: [Leslie Marmon Silko](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko.md)
- Book: [Ceremony](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/ceremony.md)
- Page: 125
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/ceremony/then-they-grow

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> [He] said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (p24)

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> The breaking and crushing were gone, and the love pushed inside his chest, and when he cried now, it was because she loved him so much. (p211)

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> He crawled deeper into the black gauzy web where he could rest in the silence, where his coming and going through this world was no more than a star falling across the night sky. He left behind the pain and buzzing in his head; they were shut out by the wide dark distance. (p154)

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