“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do no…” — Native American proverb · The Inspired Sage

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Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

— Native American proverb

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