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We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it.
Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre
Born: Apr 1, 1753
Died: Feb 26, 1821

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