“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.”

“Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.”

“This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.”

“What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”

“Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.”

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”