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"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."
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"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."
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"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
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"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
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"Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!"
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"Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency."
Nature
"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."
Home
"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."
Ability
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
People
"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."
Earth
"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."
Beginning
"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
History
"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings."
Nature
"In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home."
History
"It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America."
Exploration
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