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• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• The human body represents to me the same universal innocence
  imelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings....
• A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space.
  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest....
• The human race has been fascinated by sharks for as long as I can remember.
  Just like the bluebird feeding its young, or the spider struggling to weave its perfect web, or the buttercup blooming in spring, the shark reveals to us yet another of the infinite and wonderful facets of nature, namely the facet that it can bite your head off....
• The human race has been fascinated by sharks for as long as I can remember.
  Just like the bluebird feeding its young, or the spider struggling to weave its perfect web, or the buttercup blooming in spring, the shark reveals to us yet another of the infinite and wonderful facets of nature, namely the facet that it can bite your head off....
• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...
• The challenge of space exploration and particularly of landing men on the moon represents the greatest challenge which has ever faced the human race.
  Even if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding with this task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men toward the goal....