Calvin at his school desk: "Given the pace of technology, I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside."Calvin walking through a cleared forest: "We seem to understand the value of oil, timber, minerals, and housing, but not the value of unspoiled beauty, wildlife, solitude, and spiritual renewal."Hobbes to Calvin: "History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction."Calvin in a winter hat, waiting with his lunchbox: "How old do you have to be before you know what's going on?"