It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white men…

H. G. Wells
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity. ✨ HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether, p.25, Monkfish Book Publishing
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