Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

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

We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

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.

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

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