In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

We are all creatures of the stars.

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.