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“Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.” quote by Murray Rothbard — Download Open image

“Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.”

Murray Rothbard

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Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

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