The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

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.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

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

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.