The World Spends $40 Billion

Half A Million Women Die Each Year Around The World In Pregnancy. It's Not Biology That Kills Them So Much As Neglect.

Every Year 3.1 Million Indian Children Die Before The Age Of 5, Mostly From Diseases Of Poverty Like Diarrhea.

The Trails Are A Reminder Of Our Insignificance. We Come And Go, But Nature Is Forever. It Puts Us In Our Place, Underscoring That We Are Not Lords Of The Universe But Components Of It...so When The World Seems To Be Falling Apart, When We Humans Seem To Be Creating Messes Everywhere We Turn, Maybe It's Time To Rejuvenate In The Cathedral Of The Wilderness - And There, Away From Humanity, Rediscover Our Own Humanity.

I Think It's Dangerous To Be Optimistic.

The Intelligence Community Is So Vast That More People Have Top Secret Clearance Than Live In Washington. The U.s. Will Spend More On The War In Afghanistan This Year, Adjusting For Inflation, Than We Spent On The Revolutionary War, The War Of 1812, The Mexican-american War, The Civil War And The Spanish-american War Combined.