"If you look at the way the world operates, it’s almost blind to the fact that women bear the biggest burden and brunt…"

"Anybody who's working with these issues — biodiversity, climate change, and the underlying drivers of it — realize th…"

"A "Naturfolk" learns by intimate contact with nature that there is a healing power in the flower and the grass, in th…"

"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-u…"

"A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot. Another compares learning to an ill-smelling vegetable…"

"Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slai…"

"Pilgrimages to all sorts of uncanny places—to execution grounds, to graveyards, to houses reputed to be haunted, were…"

"Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly …"

"We needed no Shakespeare to feel—though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it—that mercy …"

"We knew Benevolence was a tender virtue and mother-like. If upright Rectitude and stern Justice were peculiarly mascu…"