I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I still find each day too short.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.