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

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

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.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

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.

Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.