Robert HassImagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.
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The words imagination and water go together perfectly. They both do the same thing, but only one of them is alive. Imagination is a powerful thing, as it can take us anywhere we want to go just as water can take us through the world that’s been created for us.
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