“The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.”
“Unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, charity in all things.”
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”
“...my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...”