"When humans act like animals, the become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.
Ignorance of when to stop is a modern epidemic; it is the basis of "industrial growth" and "economic progress."
-Wendell Berry in Getting Along With Nature - from his compiled essays called "Home Economics"
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