“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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I love her phrasing ‘extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through’ ...
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I just heard her interviewed by Krista Tippet. Book is on hold for me with NYPL!
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Thanks. Bearing this sound advice in mind, I intend to hibernate until March 17th 😊
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We should have a hibernating club.
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I have always known this but was unable to state it properly. Thank you.






