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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11pt;">I grieve what is happening to the natural world, and I understand perfectly well that my own efforts to help are far from enough. But when I watch a bluebird
introducing his mate to the nest box I’ve installed for them, it’s impossible to give up. When the tiny hummingbirds make it back from far across the Gulf of Mexico, it’s impossible to give up.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">And
a seedling muscling through the soil, carrying its old, sleeping self into the light, never fails to give me hope. It never, never, never, never fails.</span><o:p style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></p>
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