The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).

If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.

You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.

Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.