In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

The place to observe nature is where you are.