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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful . . .

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 10, 1974.
-- Annie Dillard, (Apr 30 1945-____), US author; She won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975.

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