If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives$$$ then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

No army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true$$$ or because they are afraid it might be true.

If you accept life dully$$$ you can go through it moving not among things but among words.

There is nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting$$$ but - being hunted$$$ as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle.

I've always been puzzled$$$ and am still at this moment in a state of confusion$$$ between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way$$$ and was literally more real.

You let the fire out.

Now we$$$ if not in the spirit$$$ have been caught up to see our earth$$$ our mother$$$ Gaia Mater$$$ set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.

He forgot his wounds$$$ his hunger and thirst$$$ and became fear; hopeless fear.

And in the middle of them$$$ with filthy body$$$ matted hair$$$ and unwiped nose$$$ Ralph wept for the end of innocence$$$ the darkness of man's heart$$$ and the fall through the air of the true$$$ wise friend called Piggy.