Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has … - Frank Herbert

The current utopian ideal being touted by people as politically diverse (on the surface, but not underneath) as President Richard M. Nixon and Senator Edward M. Kennedy goes as follows — no deeds of passion allowed, no geniuses, no criminals, no imaginative creators of the new. Satisfaction may be gained only in carefully limited social interactions, in living off the great works of the past. There must be limits to any excitement. Drug yourself into a placid "norm." Moderation is the key word…

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.