Now All My Teachers Are Dead Except

Sitting Over Words Very Late I Have Heard A Kind Of Whispered Sighing Not Far Like A Night Wind In Pines Or Like The Sea In The Dark The Echo Of Everything That Has Ever Been Spoken Still Spinning Its One Syllable Between The Earth And Silence.

I Think It's Good For Anybody To Learn Languages. Americans Are Particularly Limited In That Way. Europeans Less So... We're Beginning To Have Spanish Move In On English In The States Because Of All The People Coming From Hispanic Countries... And We're Beginning To Learn Some Spanish. And I Think That's A Good Thing... Only Having One Language Is Very Limiting... You Get To Think That's The Way The Human Race Is Made; There's Only One Language Worth Speaking... Well, This Isn't Good For English.

In The Time That I Have Been Acquainted With This Region I Have Become Increasingly Aware Of It As A Testament Of Water, The Origin And Guide Of Its Contours And Gradients And Of All The Lives - The Plants And Small Creatures, And The Culture - That Evolved Here. That Was Always Here To Be Seen, Of Course, And The Recognition Has Forced Itself, In One Form Or Other, Upon People In Every Part Of The World Who Have Been Directly Involved With The Growing Of Living Things. The Gardener Who Ignores It Is Soon Left With No Garden.

We Are Asleep With Compasses In Our Hands.

It's An Attitude Of Superiority. We Are Superior To The Rest Of Life. The Book Of Genesis Says: 'increase And Multiply And Have Dominion Over The Birds Of The Air And The Animals And So Forth.' You Run It; It's Yours; Do What You Like With It. I Don't Know How Old That Text Is, But It Represents An Attitude That Probably Really Got Going With The Beginning Of Agriculture. Before That, The Hunter-gatherers Were Gentler People Than The Agriculture.