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Quote by Loren Eiseley
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. – Loren Eiseley

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