I Am Driven By What I Know;

We Understand That We Must Make Peace With Nature - That Our Lives Depend On It.

We Couldn't Go To The Moon On Whale Oil. We Don't Have The Capacity Yet To Consider Doing Such Things As Harnessing Current Sunlight. We're Burning Ancient Sunlight In Order To Get Us To Where We Now Are. But It's Costly.

People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.

America Gains Most When Individuals Have Great Freedom To Pursue Personal Goals Without Undue Government Interference.

When I First Ventured Into The Gulf Of Mexico In The 1950s, The Sea Appeared To Be A Blue Infinity Too Large, Too Wild To Be Harmed By Anything That People Could Do.