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To: epicure who wrote (118253)	11/1/2003 12:53:55 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Freedom doesn't mean much if you don't have any wilderness, imo.<< "It is said of the Socratic philosopher, Aristippus, so Vitruvius wrote in the preface to the sixth book of his De architectura, that being shipwrecked and cast on the shore of Rhodes and seeing there geometrical figures in the sand, he cried out to his companions, "Let us be of good hope, for indeed I see the traces of men." Wilderness means even less if you don't have freedom, civilization, and human endeavor.