“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”

—  Aldo Leopold , book A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Manitoba: Clandeboye, p. 168.
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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