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- The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (1997; updated 2007), adapted excerpt (5 January 2021); Exact wording and attribution checked. Joint attribution preserves the explicitly identified coauthorship of the source book.
- The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (1997; updated 2007), adapted excerpt (5 January 2021)
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