"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.“


-Clarence Day

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We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

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