...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.