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Comedian George Carlin may have missed the mark a bit on the California wildfires and the responsibility he perceives as residing with the people whose homes are being destroyed, but he had an interesting point on the relationship that many Americans have with nature...

"...people think nature is outside of them. They don't take into them the idea that we are part of it. They say, "oh, we're going for a nature walk. We're going to the country because we like nature." Nature is in here. And if you're in tune with it, like the Indians, the Hopis, especially, the balance of life, the balance, the harmony of nature, if you understand that..."

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