Joel

“...nature has never found human incomprehension a reason for changing her methods.”
― Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

“I will believe anything about deer. Deer, in my opinion, are rats with antlers, roaches with split hooves, denizens of the dark primeval suburbs. Deer intensely suggest New Jersey. One of the densest concentrations of wild deer in the United States inhabits the part of New Jersey that, as it happens, I inhabit, too. Deer like people. They like to be near people. They like beanfields, head lettuce, and anybody’s apples. They like hibiscus, begonias, impatiens, azaleas, rhododendrons, boxwood, and wandering Jews. I once saw a buck with a big eight-point rocking-chair rack looking magnificent as he stood between two tractor-trailers in the Frito-Lay parking lot in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Deer use the sidewalks in the heart of Princeton.”
― John McPhee

“Let such teach others who themselves excel”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“Authors are partial to their wit”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism