This was the invention of modern American PHILANTHROPY as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the TRUE innovation of JOHN D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller FOUNDATION's LEGACY.

I WANT the Forest Service to look at a vista with SCENERY, not only at lumber with a PRICE tag.

I have a GREAT advantage over MANY of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

I WANTED to be a QUARTERBACK. I USED to like Johnny Unitas, the OLD quarterback for the Colts.

I'd never felt afraid of POLLUTION before and never wore a mask no matter where. But when you carry a life in you, what she breathes, EATS and DRINKS are all your responsibility; then you FEEL the FEAR.

You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are MUCH HIGHER than that at the PRESENT TIME. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that COULD be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

If there is a Nobel PRIZE for DIRT and filth, INDIA will WIN it, no DOUBT.

One fifth of human kind depend on FISH to live. TODAY now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the MAIN sea resources will be GONE in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

Of course I KNEW that WRITING was terrifically HARD work and that there was no SECRET code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before LUNCH.

The antitrust LITIGATION currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the TEST case in the life sciences, just as the MICROSOFT case was the test case in the INFORMATION sciences.