Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a
future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.
Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint...
Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.