Spring in Washington Quotes

“We have forgotten that we live in the universe, and that our civilization itself is merely an elaboration of the palm-leaf hat that one of our ancestors tried on ten thousand years ago to ward off the sun, a more complicated and ample version that now not only wards off the sun but shuts out the view. We have lost ourselves within it. Yet some have told me, when I set out to have a look at the stars or to watch the migration of birds, that I was escaping reality! I judge that it is they who are escaping into the artificial problems of their workaday life.”
― Louis J. Halle, Spring in Washington