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"ref": "2017, John Ryan, Plants in Contemporary Poetry",
"text": "Operating within this Australian context, a sacred ecology—which I define as a state of plant-animal-human souls in dynamic exchange with the material landscape—embodies the qualities of antipodean plant life: unique, endemic, ancient, adaptive, xeriphilic, and sensorial.",
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