When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.