Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Memory is the enemy of wonder

For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

Forget about how old you are, and get busy.

If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.