To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the
earth. It's futile to gaze at read more

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the
earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

The map is not the territory.

The map is not the territory.

Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e.
from the Netherlands-Batavia.)
[Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor read more

Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e.
from the Netherlands-Batavia.)
[Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]

There are Batavian graces in all he says.

There are Batavian graces in all he says.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The read more

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have read more

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the
place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder past,
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The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.

Lanscape shapes culture.

Lanscape shapes culture.