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There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.

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Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

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The aim. . . is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model. . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.

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