Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. – John Dewey
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. – John Dewey
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey
The alluring influences of bibliophilism, or book-loving, have silently crept into thousands of homes, whether beautiful or humble; for the library is properly regarded as one of the most important features of home as well as mental equipment. – Henry H. Harper, Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs, 1904
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. – Vaclav Klaus