Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.