All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

No one escapes from life alive.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.