Jungle

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be read more

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those read more

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is read more

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.

If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.

And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, read more

And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.

Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts -- who merely read more

Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts -- who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves -- was a civilizing triumph.

[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've read more

[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.