“We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world.
And that isn’t terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the
Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing
up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never
come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance
of the whole region. That isn’t very important in the world.

And six thousand miles away the great bombs are falling on London
and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is.”

– John Steinbeck,
Sea of Cortez, p. 3, 1941

 

I learned awhile back that if I put a little Steinbeck
in each rabbit hole it keeps me out of trouble with Wizzo.
– Indy