Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.