do schools still teach this?

haggis and whisky

"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
-- Robert Burns [1759-1796]

It's 'just" anxiety

hockey puck

"You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude."

- Don Rickles

Monoamine oxidase A

"5% of men are responsible for 60% of all violent crime."
- Dunedin Longitudinal Study

sustenance

"Everyone needs beauty and bread."
- John Muir

"If you're not funny by the age of ten you'll never be funny."
- Steve Allen

time

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"[In nature] nothing is wanting and nothing is superfluous."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

nature mastered

In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightening was electrical and that electricity was a force of nature waiting to be tapped. 

New Religion of Nature

"I feel therefore I am."

"Man was born free but is everywhere in chains."

"Existence is nothing but a succession of moments perceived through the senses."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1712-1778] observed while in a rowboat on a lake in the wilderness that he became completely at one with nature; anxieties about the past, frets about the future disappeared. 

The belief in the "beauty and innocence of nature" was a reaction to 18th century European squalor, brutality, corruption.

On Rousseau's Discourse on the Inequality of Man, where he argues that natural man is virtuous, Voltaire [1694-1778] remarked that "no one has ever used more intelligence to prove that he is stupid." Nevertheless it became one of the motive powers of the next half-century, intensified by the newly discovered "uncorrupted islanders" - the "savages" of Tahiti and the South Pacific.