Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.