“The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.”

— Ashley Montagu

Source: Man: His first Million Years, (1957); this quote begins the penultimate chapter of Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

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British-American anthropologist 1905–1999

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