...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.