Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.