When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.