To See Earth Fully We Already Need

How Many Thorns Of Human Nature - Hard, Sharp, Lifeless Protuberances That Tear And Wound Us, Narrow Prejudices, Bristling Conceits That Repel And Disgust Us - Are Arrested Developments, Calcified Tendencies, Buds Of Promise That Should Have Lifted A Branch Up Into The Sunny Day With Fruit; And Flowers To Delight The Heart Of Men, But Now All Grown Hard, Petrified, For Want Of Culture And A Congenial Soil And Climate.

Man Is, And Always Has Been, A Maker Of Gods. It Has Been The Most Serious And Significant Occupation Of His Sojourn In The World.

What A Severe Yet Master Artist Old Winter Is... No Longer The Canvas And The Pigments, But The Marble And The Chisel.

There Is Hardly A Man On Earth Who Will Take Advice Unless He Is Certain That It Is Positively Bad.

Certainly In The United States, You Have A Constituency In The Form Of The Weapons Laboratories, And You Also Have The Branches Of The Armed Services That Are Involved With Nuclear Weapons Deployment, Especially The Naval Submarine Operations And Also The Air Force's Land-based Icbm Operations. So They Have A Big Lobby In Washington.