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Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.

Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.

Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern

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Barbara Kingsolver
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Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1955; activity date not established; Wikidata Q1264643, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1264643 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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