'"Every animal on this globe, down to the amoeba, has got hands enough for its survival. Man is the only one with hands enough for more than that - hands to make what he doesn't need, as much as what he does. And it isn't until you've got six times what's necessary you begin muddling your mind what is necessary, and why, and how it's come by. A man upsets the jungle order with a half a dozen trinkets that've got no use, and then - then, mind you, not before - it strikes him that there is an order to things, and he's got to make it out. Only, make it out in such a way that he can keep his trinkets..."'
from The Dancer from the Dance by Janet Burroway (Part One)
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