The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.