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  "text": "\"...as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.\" (p215)",
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      "text": "[He] said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (p24)",
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      "text": "There was something about the way the old man said the word \"comfortable.\" It had a different meaning--not the comfort of big houses or rich food or even clean streets, but the comfort of belonging with the land, and the peace of being with these hills. (p108)",
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      "text": "...Then they grow away from the earth\n\nthen they grow away from the sun\n\nthen they grow away from the plants and the animals.\n\nThey see no life\n\nWhen they look\n\nthey see only objects.\n\nThe world is a dead thing for them\n\nthe trees and the rivers are not alive.\n\nthe mountains and stones are not alive.\n\nThe deer and bear are objects\n\nThey see no life. They fear\n\nThey fear the world.\n\nThey destroy what they fear.\n\nThey fear themselves...",
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