Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.