“We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?” PeopleIfsThinkingMenHas BeensYoungTalkingVisionProgressCrazySurvivalBuiltTrainEnvironmentalWildernessNot Talking Author:Thor Heyerdahl
“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.” WorldYearsHumansDoeImportantReasonRealityPoliticalSoundProgressEconomicModernIndustryBalanceHumorousPrisonTrainDetailsAppreciationPracticalsFiftyWrestlingSanityHarshMachineryRevivalAutomobilePublic ServiceOpen MindednessCottagesColossalQuaintTelegraphHarsh Reality Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.” LittlesIdeasSeemsWould BeEarthDesireExistenceProgressProvePerfectionTrainFormerSufficientExpandingImmensityTrain Of Thought Author:Humphry Davy
“The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.” GoalProgressTrainPeculiarDefiniteEvidentFascinationSpeeding Author:Roderick E. Stevens