THOUGHT BUBBLE-7

The creative person is more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder,

and a lot saner, than the average person.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,

it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

THOUGHT BUBBLE-6

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.

Most persons do not see the sun.

At least they have a very superficial seeing.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man,

but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;

who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

THOUGHT BUBBLE-5

History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance,

hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization.

By its servility it is the prey of tyranny,

and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.

THOUGHT BUBBLE-4

One summer night, out on a flat headland,

all but surrounded by the waters of the bay,

the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

Millions of stars blazed in darkness,

and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages.

Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.

My companion and I were alone with the stars:

the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky,

the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear,

a blazing planet low on the horizon.

It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century,

this little headland would be thronged with spectators.

But it can be see many scores of nights in any year,

and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the
beauty overhead;

and because they could see it almost any night,

perhaps they never will.

THOUGHT BUBBLE-3

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language,

and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things,

and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.


To find the universal elements enough;

to find the air and the water exhilarating;

to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...

to be thrilled by the stars at night;

to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring

- these are some of the rewards of the simple life.