<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:55784506-f6a4-43f8-a363-e7896c701b8b" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><a id="pv"/> <p class="sink"> </p> <blockquote> <p class="center ">Finally we learned to know why we did these things. The animals were very beautiful. Here was life from which we borrowed life and excitement. In other words, we did these things because it was pleasant to do them.</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="center ">—John Steinbeck, <em>The Log from the Sea of Cortez</em> (with E. F. Ricketts)</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>