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12.16.97

"when i tell them that people in the cities don't believe in mapin'guari, they say "oh, they must never have been in the woods, because everyone who has ever been in the woods knows that mapin'guari exists."

paraphrased from discovery special on giant sloth possibly in amazon



12.15.97

"How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?"

Henry David Thoreau, Walden