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and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people

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Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen

and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world

Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment language studies and wordplay—provideHummingbirds have long been a symbol of wisdom and courage. In this charming story, a hummingbird makes a valiant effort to put out a raging fire that threatens her forest home trip after trip, her beak is filled each time with just a drop of water. Her efforts show her woodland companions that doing something anything is better than doing nothing at all. The hummingbird parable, which originates with the Quechuan people of South America, has become a