“I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.” MenEndsFundamentalsDareChiefsDamnFormulasPropositions Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.” MenEndsEarthAnimalCuttingTreeRocksDestructionEnvironmentalStreamsFormulasAgricultureNature Of ManNegationShort CutsPanacea Author:Louis Bromfield