Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.