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      "text": "Small creatures die because\n\nlarger creatures are hungry.\n\nHow superior to this\n\nhuman confusion of greed\n\nand creed, blood and fire.",
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      "text": "Ask the world to reveal its quietude —\n\nnot the silence of machines when they are still,\n\nbut the true quiet by which birdsongs,\n\ntrees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms\n\nbecome what they are, and are nothing else.",
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