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To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. -- Eleanor Catton
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. -- Henry David Thoreau
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. -- Hugh Prather

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