And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own.

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John Hay was a 19th-century American statesman. John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary for Abraham Lincoln, he became a diplomat. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it

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