A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.