Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers!

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

Any fine morning a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money so long as you have got it.

You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!

Time and space-time to be alone, space to move about-these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.