“The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.”

— Aldo Leopold , book A Sand County Almanac

“November: Axe-in-Hand”, p. 71.
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "November: Axe-in-Hand," "November: A Mighty Fortress," and "December: Pines above the Snow"

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