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The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

— Jan Smuts Holism and Evolution (1926)

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It is the cleanest, neatest, most sudden and spectacular victory of the war, and in size is quite comparable to the German defeat before Stalingrad.

We do not want new orders. What the world wants is an old order of 2,000 years ago – the order of the man of Galilee.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Smuts to Alfred Milner (1905)

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation’s mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation’s needs.

Just as we preach a "black peril" so they will begin to speak of a "white peril" and of the hostility the white men have toward them.

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