At Forty, I Was Too Old To

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

Good Novels Are Not Written, They're Rewritten!

This Is The Gift Of Your Species And This Is The Danger, Because You Do Not Choose To Control Your Imaginings. You Imagine Wonderful Things And You Imagine Terrible Things, And You Take No Responsibility For The Choice. You Say You Have Inside You Both The Power Of Good And The Power Of Evil, The Angel And The Devil, But In Truth You Have Just One Thing Inside You - The Ability To Imagine.

Discovery Is Always Rape Of The Natural World. Always.

Sometimes I Think Man Needs To Feel A Special Position Within Nature, And This Leads Him To Believe That He Is Either Specially Hated By Other Animals Or Specially Cherished. Instead Of The Truth, Which Is That He's Just Another Animal On The Plain. A Smart One, But Just Another Animal.