“A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.”

“Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society. Indeed, some might say that explorers become explorers precisely because they have a streak of unsociability and a need to remove themselves at regular intervals as far as possible from their fellow men.”

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

“A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.”

“Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.”

“No avian society ever develops space travel because it's impossible to focus on calculus when you could be outside flying.”