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The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Long experience taught many ancient cultivators the perils of monocultures. In contrast, the rotation of cereals and leguminous crops either replenishes the soil nitrogen or at least eases the drain on its soil reserves.
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
Thus it may be seen that one opposite is always born of the other, which in its turn becomes the cause of the first.
The Universal One
Walter Russell
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