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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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