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God gives all men all earth to love,
But since man’s heart is small,
Ordains for each one spot shall prove
Belovèd over all. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Why have we as a people been able to continue to exist? Because we know where we come from. By having roots, you can see the direction in which you want to go. ~ Joenia Wapixana

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar nonmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. ~ George Eliot