“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. . .
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"They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximizing scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. . .
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"Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”
—Katherine May / Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
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