"What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a â€˜fortune,â€™ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of oneâ€™s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pondâ€™s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?"

-- Barry Lopez

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