Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. ✨ Thomas Carly…

Thomas Carlyle
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books, p.80, Univ of California Press
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books, p.80, Univ of California Press

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