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Essays Madeleine Doran. surf . The world of the creatures , animate or inanimate , all going about their business , or just being , independently of us , unnotic- ing , uncaring , seems to act as a special stimulus to loosen our minds ...
Essays Madeleine Doran. surf . The world of the creatures , animate or inanimate , all going about their business , or just being , independently of us , unnotic- ing , uncaring , seems to act as a special stimulus to loosen our minds ...
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... - dawn awakening of wild creatures I recognized from old experience with the San Diego zoo . Here on Jackson Lake it was strangely thrilling , because it was an 12 authentic wilderness sound , one I was hardly entitled.
... - dawn awakening of wild creatures I recognized from old experience with the San Diego zoo . Here on Jackson Lake it was strangely thrilling , because it was an 12 authentic wilderness sound , one I was hardly entitled.
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... creatures with minds we are able to perceive the universal in the particular and unity in multiplicity . Perhaps these percep- tions are at the root of our fascination in sitting hour after hour watching the ocean . Every motion of the ...
... creatures with minds we are able to perceive the universal in the particular and unity in multiplicity . Perhaps these percep- tions are at the root of our fascination in sitting hour after hour watching the ocean . Every motion of the ...
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