My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.