PART I—RIDING
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“I think I could turn and live with animals, They are so placid and self-contained; I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied. Not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.” —Walt Whitman.