"Mental life is a continuous adjustment to the environment."

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

释义：开始时做得好的人确实很多，但能够坚持到底的人却很少。这句话揭示了人们在做事过程中往往容易虎头蛇尾，难以善始善终。