![We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.](/assets/img/quote-photos/we-divorced-ourselves-from-the-materials-of-the-earth-the-rock-the-wood-the-ir.jpg)
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