The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.