When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing d… - Aldo Leopold

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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.