QUOTES
"I
hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful."
I
realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things.
Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly
or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals,
might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no
evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of
the universe.
"The
concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents
are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within
the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful
as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully
patroled."
As
nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's
a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight
that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting
victims of the darkness.
"...before
these priceless bits of Americana (such as a valley, an alpine meadow, a river,
or a lake) are forever lost or are so transformed as to be reduced to the eventual
rubble of our urban environment, the voice of the existing beneficiaries of these
environmental wonders should be heard."
The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth
into dollars.
"World
federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize
that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is
a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not
to rule the world."
