"No age in history can afford to lay too much emphasis upon “security.” The truth is that from our..."

“No age in history can afford to lay too much emphasis upon “security.” The truth is that from our first breath to our last we inhabit insecurely a world which must of its transitory nature be insecure, and that moreover any security we do achieve is but a kind of an illusion. While admitting that a profound instinct towards such safety as we can achieve is part of our animal being, let us also confess that the challenge involved in mere existence is the source of many of the greater virtues of human character.”

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Henry Beston, Northern Farm

via Brain Pickings

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/136456288652