Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the oppor…

Edward Hoagland
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Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ✨ Edward Hoagland (2014). On Nature: Selected Essays, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1995). The Tugman's Passage
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten yea … ▶
No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache. ✨ Edward Hoagland (2011). Sex and the River Styx, p.74, Chelsea Green Publishing
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead. ✨ Edward Ho … ▶
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1976). Red Wol … ▶

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ✨ Edward Hoagland (2014). On Nature: Selected Essays, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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