They wanted well-lit, even pathways so children and elders wouldn't trip and skin a knee or break a hip. And they didn't realize they were raising a generation of children who could only walk on level ground. The pathfinders of the world, henceforth, would be confined to the pre-paved paths.
Garth Stein, A Sudden Light (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), ch. 28
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