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I really like this passage, it seems very biblical.
At the beginning, before all of this greatness and tragedy, there was a tribe of nomads who roamed the plains, hunted its animals and pulled the grain from their stalks. They never took more than they needed from their land, for the less they destroyed, the more it would grow.
Their children would play on the river banks, and when the season was right, they would climb in the mountains searching for new trails in sheer zest of exploration.
There came a day in this first of tribes,. . .
Chapter 4 is available to read.