An excellent quote that I point to when discussing many endeavors of little apparent worth. So many people seem to think that the only efforts worth undertaking are those that bear useful or immediate fruits. Whatever happened to doing things just because? Also, Kennedy references the "Because it's there" line in his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. That is another good one.
I talked to some Canadian students the other day, and one of them remarked how he admired our 'European attitude' of taking a year off after high school instead of powering through. That we don't think of it as a strange thing to do. What? Why should we think of it as strange in the first place? Young adults ought to be able to catch their breath if they want to, to get a break from the factory line that education often is, instead of being rushed into college.Whatever happened to doing things just because?