Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.