All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. (Aldo Leopold)

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

Aldo Leopold

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