The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping

Phil was right there helping. I couldn't ask for better neighbors.

Neighbors don't like it. But my children and their friends enjoy riding around my pond. We're not hurting no one or bothering no one else.

It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and where people had a healthy curiosity as to who was who and where people had come from. It was very difficult to be anonymous, even in Gaborone, as there would always be neighbours who would want to know exactly what one was doing and who one’s people had been.

We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.