Susan Orlean Quotes

I Read Lots Of Local Newspapers And Particularly The Shortest Articles In Them, And Most Particularly Any Articles That Are Full Of Words In Combinations That Are Arresting. In The Case Of The Orchid Story I Was Interested To See The Words 'swamp' And 'orchids' And 'Seminoles' And 'cloning' And 'criminal' Together In One Short Piece. Sometimes This Kind Of Story Turns Out To Be Something More, Some Glimpse Of Life That Expands Like Those Japanese Paper Balls You Drop In Water And Then After A Moment They Bloom Into Flowers, And The Flower Is So Marvelous That You Can't Believe There Was A Time When All You Saw In Front Of You Was A Paper Ball And A Glass Of Water.

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