The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

我需要大海，因为它教导我。

Every building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward.

最古老、最简短的词语——'是'和'否'——是需要最多思考的。

——温铁军谈“倡导绿色消费和有机消费”

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

The best agricultural solutions are often the simplest ones.

历史的重量总是存在于我们使用的材料中。

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The only thing I can do is to be honest about my uncertainty.

译文：农民眼泪像雨一样流，又能怎样呢?当官的应该体恤百姓的辛苦啊!

当我们是大为谦卑的时候，便是我们最接近伟大的时候。