The Wilderness And The Idea Of Wilderness

To Be Individually Righteous Is The First Of All Duties, Come What May To Ones Self, To One's Country, To Society, And To Civilization Itself.

There Is No Conceivable Human Action Which Custom Has Not At One Time Justified And At Another Condemned.

If Only The Fit Survive And If The Fitter They Are The Longer They Survive, Then Volvox Must Have Demonstrated Its Superb Fitness More Conclusively Than Any Higher Animal Ever Has.

The Flowers Never Waste Their Sweetness On The Desert Air Or, For That Matter, On The Jungle Air. In Fact, They Waste It Only When Nobody Except A Human Being Is There To Smell It. It Is For The Bugs And A Few Birds, Not For Men, That They Dye Their Petals Or Waft Their Scents.

In The Long Run Our Boasted Control Of Nature Is A Delusion.