Adversity is a great teacher but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading...
Our government is the potent the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it...
It is absolutely imperative that we protect preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.