But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

There's a way to log many of these rainforests without destroying them, to do it sustainably. And we've seen the beginnings of that. The work of Ian and Karen McAllister has been invaluable,

You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.