The view of the High Sierra lake, nestled in the snow and rock slightly below the timberland, was beautiful from my vantage point, some 500 feet above its shimmering surface. I was anxious to rejoin my companions and try the...
My father, who died 17 years ago at the age of 84, had a religious faith, which I envied him, but which I could not accept in my younger days. He believed implicitly in God as a personal God, intimately...
I am getting along toward three score years and ten. I look about me and see many fine contemporaries, and I wonder if it is true that only the good die young. And if it is, what then must the...
I consider that mankind has reached a great crossroads. I think this because I believe that man possesses a free will and that consequently he is, at all times, in a position from which he can march to good or...
Being a cripple from birth, a professional journalist and a writer by vocation, I have asked myself countless times, What can I give to my fellow man from the distillation of my own personal experience that can be of real...
In my judgment, the central aim of education and of life is to wed knowledge with wisdom, to enable men both to do, and to do what is good. As I grow older, my conviction deepens that knowledge without virtue...
My first belief is in the rich potential of man. My second belief is that most of this potential lies untouched within him and has hardly begun to be used. I believe that we are on the threshold of a...
I am a geographer, which means that I am concerned with observing, recording, and mapping the differences between one part of the world and another, and with probing their causes and consequences. In the course of my job I’ve had...
I believe that God is nature. Chance could not have made the world we live in. We could not have come from water and rock alone. The trees, the snow, the sea, a flower—I believe the beauty that it springs...
