Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

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.