I may be wrong - it's been a long time ago since I read it, but I believe that was from the collected wisdom of Lazarus Long in the novel "Methuselah's Children."

Jeff Isom
Cleveland, OH / Sunset Zone 39

Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jim, my favorite version is be Robert Heinlein -- Natural laws have no pity.

Wayne Greenleaf - New Orleans Z9


Thanks, Wayne. I've added it to my collection. Which of his
stories is it from, do you know?

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - When we see
land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect - Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac

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