"This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty."

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For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a more open veldt country where competition was keener between swiftness and stealth, and where adroitness of thinking played a preponderating role in the preservation of the species.

— Raymond Dart