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“My sense of kinship with this world is not only with its obviously sympathetic and and beautiful aspects, but also with the horrendous and strange. For I have found that the monstrous and inhuman aspects of fish and insects and reptiles are not so much in them as in me. They are external embodiments of my natural creeps and shudders at the thought of pain and death.”

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Book:Nature, Man and Woman
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Nature, Man and Woman

This book delves into the intricate connections between human beings and the environment, examining the impact of nature on human life and culture. more

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