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I stopped using plastic cooking spoons years ago and love my bamboo spoons and spatulas by Bambuhome.

~Anna Getty

Topics: Bamboo Cooking Love Plastic Stopped Using Years Years Ago

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

~Bruce Lee

Topics: Bamboo Bending Cracked Easily Most Notice Survives Tree While Willow Wind

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My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science his whole life. Both my paternal grandparents were illiterate bamboo farmers, so he really worked his way up and then got a Ph.D., full ride and everything, from universities in America.

~Constance Wu

Topics: America Bamboo Been Biology Both Commonwealth Dad Everything Farmers Full Genetics Got Grandparents He His His Way Illiterate Job Life Obsessed Professor Really Ride Science Teaches Then Universities University Up Virginia Way Were Whole Worked

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All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Amnesia Bamboo Biography Effort Every Fog Frames Gods Imagination Island Labour Memory Mind Phrase Pieces Racial Rainbows Rebuilding Sudden Sunlight Through

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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Bamboo Been Body Centre God Join Like Limb Memory Remembering Severed Thighs Those Which

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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Animals Bamboo Better Big Canadian China Come Downhill Ever Exotic Few Giant Holding How Know Like Most People Pine Sea See Tree Up Wild Will Worse Zoo

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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

~Eddie Huang

Topics: Allow Anything Bamboo Black Brown Business Ceiling Define Face How Inspire Operate People Skin Wanted Whatever White Who Work Yellow You Your

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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

~Elliott Smith

Topics: Also Around Bamboo Doing Gravel Jobs Like Odd Portland Spreading Trees

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