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‘A belt of straw and Ivy buds, With Coral clasps and Amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move,  Come live with me, and be my love.’ ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ – Christopher Marlowe ‘You perhaps at one time thought there was such a thing as worldly happiness to be arrived at, at certain periods of time marked out – you have of necessity from your disposition been thus led away – I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness – I look not for it if it be not in the present hour – nothing startles me beyond the moment. The Setting Sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.’  – John Keats, from a letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 ‘I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.’ – John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, Newport, July 3, 1819 ‘We are the only poets, and everyone else is prose . ’ – Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale characterizing scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material. ‘All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince 88
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with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed’ – Richard Adams, Watership Down ‘Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain’ – Frida Kahlo, from a letter to Diego de Rivera ‘Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.’ ‘Hummingbird’ – Raymond Carver Hoatzin (South America): Their chicks have claws on two of their wing digits, an adaptation shared by Archaeopteryx. Parent Hoatzins build their nest over streams: when in danger nestlings jump into the stream, swim underwater, and climb another tree to safety. Cherry Pickers and Our Home is a Hunger. At 7a.m. on 19 October 2011 the site clearance of Dale Farm Traveller Camp began. Electricity was disconnected. More than one hundred riot police entered the site through the rear fence and two people were tasered. Police removed Travellers from the twelve-metre high scaffold tower on the front gate with ‘cherry pickers’, mobile elevating work platforms. Travellers are often employed as fruit pickers and packers. 89

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‘A belt of straw and Ivy buds, With Coral clasps and Amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move,  Come live with me, and be my love.’ ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ – Christopher Marlowe ‘You perhaps at one time thought there was such a thing as worldly happiness to be arrived at, at certain periods of time marked out – you have of necessity from your disposition been thus led away – I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness – I look not for it if it be not in the present hour – nothing startles me beyond the moment. The Setting Sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.’  – John Keats, from a letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 ‘I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.’ – John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, Newport, July 3, 1819 ‘We are the only poets, and everyone else is prose . ’ – Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale characterizing scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material. ‘All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince

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