When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to ever…

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ✨ John Muir (2011). My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ✨ John Muir (2011). My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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