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  • There arethree classes whichneed sanctuary morethan othersbirds, wild flowers, and Prime Ministers.

    - Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (of Bewdley)
      In the Observer, 24 May.

  • When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until Iwent intothesanctuaryof God; thenunderstood I their end.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 73:16^17.

  • And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and fora rockof offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 8:14.

  • We were now actually in the inner sanctuary of the Nanda Devi Basin, and at each step I experienced that subtlethrill which anyone of imagination must feel when treading hitherto unexplored country† My most blissful dream as a child was to be in some such valley, free to wander where I liked, and discover for myself some hitherto unrevealed glory of Nature. Now the reality was no less wonderful than that half-forgotten dream; and of how many childish fancies can that be said, in this age of disillusionment ?

    - Eric Earle Shipton
      Nanda Devi.

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