Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of….

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people..

Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing ….

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign..

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by ….

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds..

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy….

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspirati….

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cor….

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity..

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such….

Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if they thought ….

...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier..

Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more th….

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe..

For every minute, the future is becoming the past..

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which w….

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armame….

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range..

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sur….

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start ….