Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.