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Human Beings Are So Destructive. I Sometimes Think We're A Kind Of Plague, That Will Scrub The Earth Clean. We Destroy Things So Well That I Sometimes Think, Maybe That's Our Function. Maybe Every Few Eons, Some Animal Comes Along That Kills Off The Rest Of The World, Clears The Decks, And Lets Evolution Proceed To Its Next Phase.

It Is Especially Difficult For Modern People To Conceive That Our Modern, Scientific Age Might Not Be An Improvement Over The Prescientific Period.

In Science, The Old Men Are Usually Wrong. But In Politics, The Old Men Are Wise, Counsel Caution, And In The End Are Often Right.

The Romantic View Of The Natural World As A Blissful Eden Is Only Held By People Who Have No Actual Experience Of Nature. People Who Live In Nature Are Not Romantic About It At All. They May Hold Spiritual Beliefs About The World Around Them, They May Have A Sense Of The Unity Of Nature Or The Aliveness Of All Things, But They Still Kill The Animals And Uproot The Plants In Order To Eat, To Live. If They Don't, They Will Die.

Nobody Smart Knows What They Want To Do Until They Get Into Their Twenties Or Thirties.