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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

Source: Jonah the tramp, in Devices and Desires, ch. 40, 1989.
-- P D James, (Aug 3 1920-2014), English mystery novelist; Phyllis Dorothy James is best known for creating the intelligent, perceptive poet and inspector, Adam Dalgliesh, Cover Her Face, 1962.


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