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| 68ea92f | With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive. | greed environmental-conservation ursula-k-le-guin water | Ursula K. Le Guin |