The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
— Edwin Way Teale
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
