How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! ... Even so, I think there is some virtue in eagerness, whether its object prove true or false. (Aldo Leopold)

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! ... Even so, I think there is some virtue in eagerness, whether its object prove true or false.

Aldo Leopold

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