Earthworms, beetles, mites, ants, nematodes, springtails, and protozoa bump cell walls and brush antennae in a great clay underground metropolis. There is nothing rural about nature.
Nature and Science
The body's pickiness: below 68 Fahrenheit, we shiver; above 75, we sweat.
Environmentalism is not about saving nature, but saving civilization.
I am nowhere, through being too aware of everywhere.
Equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific, the Appalachians and Rockies, New York and California, the Plains are the midpoint of everything, yet a thousand miles from anything.
On a ship, our thoughts are more spacious, our legs more cramped.
Developers build because parents beget. Suburbs sprawl because lovers do.
Nowadays, we designate wildernesses instead of discover them.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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