I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.

In nature nothing exists alone.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.