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“More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.
— George Washington Carver
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How to Search for Truth, letter to Hubert W. Pelt (1930-02-24)
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