Ethiopian Rift Valley

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“The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)