“Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts children into social artifacts called citiz...”

“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.”

“The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.”

“The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes adv...”

“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.”

“Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.”

“Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.”

“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neighbors that a lawn implied; it was the lawns rel...”

“We having so much fun together!! 'through nature..through people..through religion...through culture..through friendship...we manage to learn something that lead to a better relationship among huma...”

“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine ...”

“It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?”

“My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.”

“China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of Chi...”

“Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.”

“An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'”