Our legacy will be defined by how we treat the forests today.
The anarchic nature of the international system means that states must rely on self-help to ensure their survival.
The best way to untangle a knotty tangle is not to “untie” the knots, but to keep pulling the loops apart wider and wider. Just make the mess as big, loose and open as possible. As you open up the knots they will unravel themselves. Works on cords, strings, hoses, yarns, or electronic cables.
The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.