She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.
Mark HelprinQuite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.
Mark HelprinOne thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case
Mark Helprin