If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.