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What does it mean?
The ground we walk on once belonged to living beings.
In plain terms
The dust under our feet was once alive.
What can you take from it?
Respect the living history of the earth.

Where it applies

  • environmental reflection
  • standing on historic sites

Putting it to work

  • practice gratitude for nature
  • preserve ecosystems

Questions to consider

  • What does this change in how you treat the environment?

Another view

It simplifies complex geological processes.

More from Lord Byron

  1. I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse,-borne away with every breath!

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  2. All farewells should be sudden.

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  3. By all that 's good and glorious.

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