When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions， a few of which I had thought about， some of which I had sort of stumbled on， and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

一本书是通向想象力和知识的敞开之窗。

Technology can help us monitor forests, but wisdom teaches us how to preserve them.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

Now some advantages particular to this age are not to be denied. Boredom seems to have been vanquished. There is always something to do, but hasn’t this translated into a perpetual distraction in our lives.