""thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events."

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The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

— Rene Dubos