I Suppose Everyone Continues To Be Interested

It Really Takes A Hero To Live Any Kind Of Spiritual Life Without Religious Belief.

It Is Impossible, Except For Theologians, To Conceive Of A World-wide Scandal Or A Universe-wide Scandal; The Proof Of This Is The Way People Have Settled Down To Living With Nuclear Fission, Radiation Poisoning, Hydrogen Bombs, Satellites, And Space Rockets.

The Fact Is That Gardening, More Than Most Of Our Other Activities Except Sometimes Love-making, Confronts Us With The Inexplicable.

The Famous Florentine Elegance, Which Attracts Tourists To The Shops On Via Tornabuoni And Via Della Vigna Nuova, Is Characterized By Austerity Of Line, Simplicity, Economy Of Effect.

Our Language, Once Homely And Colloquial, Seeks To Aggrandize Our Meanest Activities With Polysyllabic Terms Or It Retreats From Frankness Into A Stammering Verbosity.