So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.