The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.

Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.