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We Need To Go Back To Our Relationship With Nature And Understand That Those Trees Are Our Lungs. The Earth Is Recycling As Our Body. The Rivers Are Our Circulation. This Air Is Our Breath. And The Star Stuff, The Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen That Comes From Distant Galaxies Is Actually The Molecules Of Your Body.

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We Need To Go Back To Our Relationship With Nature And Understand That Those Trees Are Our Lungs. The Earth Is Recycling As Our Body. The Rivers Are Our Circulation. This Air Is Our Breath. And The Star Stuff, The Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen That Comes From Distant Galaxies Is Actually The Molecules Of Your Body.

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