No one before the twenty-first century had ever loved flowers and fruiting trees and little birds and the… — Marge Piercy
No one before the twenty-first century had ever loved flowers and fruiting trees and little birds and the simple beauty of green leaves as did those who lived after the Famine, for whom they were precious and rare and always endangered. (four: THROUGH THE BURNING LABYRINTH)
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