All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.