We're better for having lived in the same world with him.
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Great piece, Marks.
BTW, that one about "when you come to a fork in the road, take it" was actually the last part of his directions on how to get to his house. He lived in one of the Jersey suburbs of NYC. The layout of the streets was such that there was a side street which connected to a loop. Yogi lived on the loop. So, one would go down the road to the side street, follow that to the fork and then take either branch of the fork to drive along the loop where Yogi's house was.
So, it was both a deeply philosophical statement and accurate directions to his house all at once. Or, as one of the NY papers called him, an "unintentional philosopher".