The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop o
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The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses How beautiful when we first beheld it, Unbroken field of poppy and lupin1 walled with clean cliffs; No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing, Or a few milch2 cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop3 rock-heads Now the spoiler has come: does it care? Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide That swells and in time will ebb, and all Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine* beauty Lives in the very grain of the granite, Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff.As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from. 5 10 15Explanation / Answer
13. The words “uncenter” (line 13) and “unhumanize” (line 14) suggest that people should become less egocentric.
14. The narrator implies that humans are protective of their environment.