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“My son and daughter tell me where they are in very different ways. I know where my son is because I hear him. I know where my daughter is because she tells me.”
—Anonymous Father. Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium, ch. 1 (1994)

“The primitive wood is always and everywhere damp and mossy, so that I traveled constantly with the impression that I was in a swamp; and only when it was remarked that this or that tract, judging from the quality of the timber on it, would make a profitable clearing, was I reminded, that if the sun were let in it would make a dry field, like the few I had seen, at once.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)