Hope is a state of mind, not a state of the world. . . .Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
We are still in transition from the notion of man as master of the earth to the notion of man as a part of it.
Wallace Stegner