Raising Children Is, In A Sense, The

Although Knowledge Of How Things Work Is Sufficient To Allow Manipulation Of Nature, What Humans Really Want To Know Is Why Things Work. Children Don't Ask How The Sky Is Blue. They Ask Why The Sky Is Blue.

Science Can't Tell You Why Anything Happens.

Although Personally, I Think Cyberspace Means The End Of Our Species.

The Romantic View Of The Natural World As A Blissful Eden Is Only Held By People Who Have No Actual Experience Of Nature. People Who Live In Nature Are Not Romantic About It At All. They May Hold Spiritual Beliefs About The World Around Them, They May Have A Sense Of The Unity Of Nature Or The Aliveness Of All Things, But They Still Kill The Animals And Uproot The Plants In Order To Eat, To Live. If They Don't, They Will Die.

Each Person Bears A Fear Which Is Special To Him. One Man Fears A Close Space And Another Man Fears Drowning; Each Laughs At The Other And Calls Him Stupid. Thus Fear Is Only A Preference, To Be Counted The Same As The Preference For One Woman Or Another, Or Mutton For Pig, Or Cabbage For Onion.