Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug, ' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff. Jack Gantos
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