There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.