“Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.”
“To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.”
“Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.”
“Where much is given, much is required.”
“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought”
“... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.”