There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.