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If The Amount Of Money Going Into The War Economy Were Invested In Landscape Restoration, We Would Be In A Far More Positive Position. It May Get A Little Dire Before We Pull Together, But I Think When The Prosperous Nations, And In Particular The Us, Realise They're Wrecking Their Own Kids' Lives, There Will Be A Mass Change In Value. It Will Be A Difficult Century, And Ugly, But I Don't Think That In The End People Are So Stupid As To Kill Themselves Off.

Beauty Was The Promise Of Happiness, Not Happiness Itself; And The Anticipated World Was Often More Rich Than Anything Real.

Childhood Isn't Just Those Years. It's Also The Opinions You Form About Them Afterward. That's Why Our Childhoods Are So Long.

On The River Path In Boston Beauty Was Most Expressed As Youth And Intelligence. That Made Sense; Sixty Degree-giving Institutions, Some Three Hundred Thousand Students; That Meant At Least One Hundred Fifty Thousand More Nubile Young Women Than Demographics Would Ordinarily Suggest. Maybe That Was Why Young Men Stayed In Boston When Their College Years Were Over, Maybe That Explained Why They Were So Intellectually Hyperactive, So Frustrated, So Alcoholic, Such Terrible Drivers.

I Grew Up In A Utopia, I Did. California When I Was A Child Was A Child's Paradise, I Was Healthy, Well Fed, Well Clothed, Well Housed. I Went To School And There Were Libraries With All The World In Them And After School I Played In Orange Groves And In Little League And In The Band And Down At The Beach And Every Day Was An Adventure. . . . I Grew Up In Utopia.