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This reads as a claim that beauty is not just decoration, but a moral resource. It can be taken to mean that noticing nature and making things of beauty helps people hold themselves together, and that creation becomes a form of rescue. It lands when someone is trying to stay hopeful by gardening, making art, or simply paying attention to what still feels whole.
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Originally said in English.
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