Sublime

for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life.

fecund

The first government report on global warming—though the phenomenon was not yet called “global warming”—was delivered to President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. “Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment,” it asserted. The result of burning fossil fuels would, almost certainly, be “significant changes in the temperature,” which would, i

To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs.

innocuous.