August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

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.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

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