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“It may be that we are only here to learn how to love,” muses Maria Popova. What will survive of us in our life story is love.

Szumowska Eva - placed by Kobus Burger on Instagram (kobusburgerkpb ) “If the forest goes silent—move. You have seven minutes,” said Arto Kallio , a trapper from Lapland who spent forty winters in the taiga. The concept of seven minutes is hugely revealing in creative memoir writing. THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED The University of Helsinki tested this phenomenon using sound sensors placed across 200 square kilometres of boreal forest. Before any major predator movement, the fre