Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.

In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass through them without damage.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.