CONSUMERISM

  
The absence of real experiences -- those that involve communion with nature and with one's fellow men -- gives rise to the cult of consumption. We buy goods and gadgetry when we have been deprived of wildflowers and stars, when there is no one with whom we can stroll hand in hand, heart in heart.

-- Erskine Lane


COURAGE

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them . . . . It kills the very good and the very gentle an the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

-- Ernest Hemingway