Life Is A Struggle, But Not A

Nature Comes Home To One Most When One Is At Home. The Stranger And Traveler Finds Her A Stranger And Traveler Also.

When Nature Made The Blue-bird She Wished To Propitiate Both The Sky And The Earth, So She Gave Him The Color Of The One On His Back And The Hue Of The Other On His Breast.

The Budget For Nuclear Forces In The United States Is On The Order Of $25 Billion Or So. That Includes Warheads, Delivery Systems, Command And Control; Does Not Include Environmental Clean-up, Which Is Another Maybe $10 Billion Or So. So That's About 5% Of The U.s. Military Budget.

The Life Of Nature We Must Meet Halfway; It Is Shy, Withdrawn, And Blends Itself With A Vast Neutral Background. We Must Be Initiated; It Is An Order The Secrets Of Which Are Well Guarded.

The Rocks Have A History; Gray And Weatherworn, They Are Veterans Of Many Battles; They Have Most Of Them Marched In The Ranks Of Vast Stone Brigades During The Ice Age; They Have Been Torn From The Hills, Recruited From The Mountaintops, And Marshaled On The Plains And In The Valleys; And Now The Elemental War Is Over, There They Lie Waging A Gentle But Incessant Warfare With Time And Slowly, Oh, So Slowly, Yielding To Its Attacks!