People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.