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The thing i learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into strawberry creek in berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.
-Robert Hass
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The Thing I Learned Is That The

Robert Hass
The thing i learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into strawberry creek in berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.
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