We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air.
ALAN MACFARLANE
ALAN MACFARLANE
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Alan Macfarlane4 quotes“We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air.”
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