I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
E. B. WhiteAdvice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
E. B. WhiteThe critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E. B. WhiteThe first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E. B. White