Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything. (E. F. Schumacher)

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

E. F. Schumacher

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