The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Eventually his books of essays were transformed into two stage productions. Negotiations are under way for further publication in Europe in Spanish Italian and German. His prose style is very simple and direct and finds life-affirming maxims in such mundane matters as zoos leaf-raking and dusting.