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heart. But I am sure that they are no more necessary than 

 the desert to an adequate imagmative grasp of the world 

 we hve in. Those wh o_have never k nown it are to be pitied , 

 like a man who has never read Hamlet or heard the Jupiter 

 Symphony. H e has missed something which is unique. And 

 there is nothing else which cangive him more than a hint 

 of what he has missed. To have experienced it is to be 

 prepared to see other landscapes with new eyes and to par- 

 ticipate with a fresh understanding in the Me of other 

 natural communities. 



