The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
