"As an English saying goes, "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.""

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General Secretaries and Chairmen of the Communist Party of ChinaChina–United States relations2023
Original Language: English

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Ref: Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge (1971) p. 33.

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Ref: Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge (1971) p. 33.