It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?