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Saving for later—Berry against the idea of “infinite” sources of mechanical energy as a replacement for energy stored in animals, the ground, and people: “We cannot conceive of infinity except as enormous quantity. We cannot conceive of it as orderly process, as pattern or cycle, as shapeliness. We conceive of it as inconceivable quantity…any quantity we cannot measure we assume must be infinite.”