Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature__ot as rulers over it, but as participants in it.
ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn__ a mirror big enough__ee point one.
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ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn__ a mirror big enough__ee point one.
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