To love nature and to fear it, and to rely on it and to appease it where necessary.
9 seconds sound clip from the The Wicker Man (1973) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:45:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- But, of course, to begin with, they worked for him because he fed them and clothed them...
- But later, when the trees starting fruiting, it became a very different matter.
- And the ministers fled the island, never to return.
- What my grandfather had started out of expediency, my father continued out of...love.
- He brought me up the same way, to reverence the music and the drama and the rituals of the old gods.
- To love nature and to fear it, and to rely on it and to appease it where necessary.
- He brought you up to be a pagan!
- A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
- Lord Summerisle, I am interested in one thing: the law.
- Now, sir, if I may have your permission to exhume the body of Rowan Morrison.
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