The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

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.

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?