We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

John Calvin
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  1. One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science...

  2. One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

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