Then, Again, How Annoying To

The Rocks Have A History; Gray And Weatherworn, They Are Veterans Of Many Battles; They Have Most Of Them Marched In The Ranks Of Vast Stone Brigades During The Ice Age; They Have Been Torn From The Hills, Recruited From The Mountaintops, And Marshaled On The Plains And In The Valleys; And Now The Elemental War Is Over, There They Lie Waging A Gentle But Incessant Warfare With Time And Slowly, Oh, So Slowly, Yielding To Its Attacks!

One Of The Hardest Lessons We Have To Learn In This Life, And One That Many Persons Never Learn, Is To See The Divine, The Celestial, The Pure, In The Common, The Near At Hand-to See That Heaven Lies About Us Here In This World.

One Goes To Nature Only For Hints And Half-truths. Her Facts Are Crude Until You Have Absorbed Them Or Translated Them ... It Is Not So Much What We See As What The Thing Seen Suggests.

[t]he Cold Warms Me—after A Different Fashion From That Of The Kitchen Stove.

Unfortunately, Nuclear Weapons Have Become Identified With State Power.