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To Carol Hammer's Web Page
"Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions,
preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years
later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart
is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers."
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Peter Matthiessen
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