If it were now possible to find some section of country so far up above the forks of the creek that the owls mate there with the chickens, and if this section could send to Congress one of its provincials untainted by the outside world, he would, if at all intelligent, soon after arriving on Capitol Hill become aware of interdependencies between his remote province and the rest of the world.
"Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest"
J. Frank Dobie
The interdependencies and associations of lay life-kingdoms and fiefs and manors-were only personal groupings, based on personal sentiments of loyalty and unconscious elements of custom.
"The Unity of Civilization"
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