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For recreation do something entirely useless, child," he had often said to her. "Man's interest in the unnecessary is a measure of his civilization.
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― Here I Stay
― Here I Stay
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Becoming serious is a grievous fault in hobbyists. It is an axiom that no hobby should either seek or need rational justification. To wish to do it is reason enough. To find reasons why it is useful or beneficial converts it at once from an avocation into an industry - lowers it at once to the ignominious category of an 'exercise' undertaken for health, power, or profit. Lifting dumbbells is not a hobby. It is a confession of subservience, not an assertion of liberty.
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― A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River
― A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River
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