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“He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized vehicle and telephones wires, and radios that surrounded him now… The woods in late autumn had become his private sun dappled cathedral, one that contained presences antithetical to the…” quote by James Lee Burke — Download Open image

““He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized vehicle and telephones wires, and radios that surrounded him now… The woods in late autumn had become his private sun dappled cathedral, one that contained presences antithetical to the conventional notion of a church.””

James Lee Burke

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