Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.