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"For some people, what they are is not finished at the skin,
but continues with the reach of the senses out into the land."
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For such people, the home country is really two countries: the country itself, and "the country of the mind," which is the country itself as identified to communal memory by cultural and historical association. It is this invisible landscape,
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"that makes what is merely empty space to one person a place to another...
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Occasionally one sees something fleeting in the land,
a moment when line, color, and movement intensify and
something sacred is revealed,
leading one to believe that there is another realm of reality
corresponding to the physical one but different...
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the land is inexplicably coherent,
it is transcendent in its meaning,
and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life."
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Occasionally one sees something fleeting in the land,
a moment when line, color, and movement intensify and
something sacred is revealed,
leading one to believe that there is another realm of reality
corresponding to the physical one but different...
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the land is inexplicably coherent,
it is transcendent in its meaning,
and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life."
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~ Wendell Berry
quoting Barry Lopez from "Arctic Dreams"
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