Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.