The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!