Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.