Education...is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

After many days of much riding down among thickets of detail

and box canyons of routine, it sometimes profits a man to top out

[on] the high ridge of leave without pay,

and to take a look around...

"To the Forest Officers of the Carson," July 15, 1913, Aldo Leopold

They rode.

You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins.

About what?

I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease.

Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways.

Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasn't supposed to be and didnt know it?

What the hell's wrong with you?

I dont know. Nothin. I believe I'll sing.

He did.

All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy