Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back. ✨ Ralph Waldo Em…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book), p.197, Modern Library
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