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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: over the lesser mountains and the distant ridge,
beyond which the islands now showed plainly. Then
we dropped down behind the divide into a cup valley
containing a little meadow with running water on
two sides of it and big pines above. The meadow
was brown, to be sure, as all typical California is at
this time of year. But the brown of California and
the brown of the East are two different things. Here
is no snow or rain to mat down the grass, to suck
out of it the vital principles. It grows ripe and sweet
and soft, rich with the life that has not drained away,
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