He had only imagined a slower fighting style from an unconscious assumption that man in the past were weaker or slower or less imaginative than he wa… - Michael Crichton

What is the dominant motive experience at the end of the twentieth century? How do people see things, and how do they expect to see things? The answer is simple. In every field, from business to politics to marketing to education, the dominant mode has become entertainment.

G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), “If you believe in nothing, you’ll believe in anything.” That

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.