We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.