Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.