Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

We write to make sense of it all.