People have a funny habit of taking as ‘natural' whatever they are used to-but there hasn't been any ‘natural' environment, the way they mean it, since men climbed down out of trees. (Robert A. Heinlein)

People have a funny habit of taking as ‘natural' whatever they are used to-but there hasn't been any ‘natural' environment, the way they mean it, since men climbed down out of trees.

Robert A. Heinlein

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