While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.