The breathing, sensing body draws its sustenance and its very substance from the soils, plants, and elements that surround it; it continually contributes itself, in turn, to the air, to the composting earth, to the nourishment of insects as well as breathing the world into itself, so that it is very difficult to discern, at any moment, precisely where this living body begins and where it ends.
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