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  • He'd been hearing the greensong of the forest for so many months that it was deafening, the silence when it was near gone, near completely killed by the cacophony of the jammering life on a White man's farm in spring.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • At night in his own bed, Alvin listened to the distant greensong, still warm and beautiful, still bright and hopeful even though the forest was getting so sparse, even though the future was so dim.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • Hadn't Arthur Stuart talked about how Alvin could run and run with the greensong he learned from that Red prophet?

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • Alvin learned the greensong of the Reds because he became like a child to Tenskwa-Tawa and Ta-Kumsaw.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • This greensong that you speak of, for hiding in the forest while running very fast.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • No greensong helped him at first, for the town was too built up.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • The journey that Alvin had made in one night, running with the greensong to carry him along, took them more than a week at their leisurely pace.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • In a few minutes the greensong had them and they fairly flew through the woods along the river.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • He was trying to help them find their way into the greensong, the first faintest melody, by getting their sage or sorrel or thyme, whatever herb they chose, to grow one specially long branch.

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

  • And even though Alvin didn't know where he was going, he did know this: The greensong might be weak and jumbled these days, but it was still there, and he couldn't help but fall into it and start moving in perfect harmony with the greenwood.

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

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