People Who Try To Predict

There Are Dangers In Sentimentalizing Nature. Most Sentimental Ideas Imply, At Bottom, A Deep If Unacknowledged Disrespect. It Is No Accident That We Americans, Probably The World's Champion Sentimentalizers About Nature, Are At One And The Same Time Probably The World's Most Voracious And Disrespectful Destroyers Of Wild And Rural Countryside.

The Japanese Are Virtuosos. They Make Just The Little Accent That Makes All The Difference. So Much There Is So Beautiful - Just A Shop Window Display Is A Work Of Art. Just The Way They Make All Kinds Of Things Out Of Bamboo That Are So Ingenious. Just The Way This Little Bamboo Drain Or Latch Is So Beautiful. The Masonry Around The Streams To Hold The Bank Are Beautiful - And Not All One Kind And Not Just Cement.

Advanced Cultures Are Usually Sophisticated Enough, Or Have Been Sophisticated Enough At Some Point In Their Pasts, To Realize That Foxes Shouldn't Be Relied On To Guard Henhouses.

I Think That Intelligent People To A Great Extent Are Captives Of Their Time Or Place.

There Are Still An Awful Lot Of Intelligent, Clever Constructive Americans And They Are Still Doing Clever Constructive Things.