They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Too much information is rather deadening.

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

New things are always ugly.