Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

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

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.

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.