I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas. Typee

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Unlimited Power

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental/population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!" Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

this second, violent world gushed out fragrantly everywhere, except in our rooms, where Mother and Father were. And that was very good. It was wonderful that here among us there was peace, order, and repose, duty and a clear conscience, forgiveness and love—and wonderful that all the rest existed, all those noisy, glaring, somber, and violent things, which nevertheless could be escaped with a single bound toward one’s mother. Demian