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Urban Nature
- Jane Hirshfield, despite growing up in New York City, always longed for nature.
- Her earliest memory is of lying in grass, with blackberries, longing for a wilder world.
Early Spiritual Longing
- Despite a non-religious Jewish upbringing, a young Hirshfield expressed a desire to be a nun.
- This foreshadowed her later life as a Zen monk, demonstrating a yearning for a dedicated spiritual life.
Dowsing for Destiny
- As a child, Hirshfield's interests foreshadowed her future path.
- Her first purchased book was Japanese haiku, bought with allowance at eight years old, showing an early pull towards poetry and Zen.