When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
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Food is rarely in short supply for Saskatoons but mobility is rare. Movement is a gift of the pollinators, but the energy needed to support the buzzing around is scarce. So the trees and the insects create a relationship of exchange that benefits both.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer in THE SERVICEBERRY: ABUNDANCE AND RECIPROCITY IN THE NATURAL WORLD