“If I weren’t a raven, but just human like you, then I’d settle here and learn everything that is in books,” said the raven. “Wouldn’t like to do that, too?”
“Oh, no,” said Nils. “I’d rather go around with the wild geese.”
–Selma Lagerloff
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Dr. Carmen Bugan--Poet, Scholar, Teacher 