August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.

The child is the father of the man.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.