Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, …

Diane Ackerman
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Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2002). Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden, G K Hall & Company
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