When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
Hermann HesseThe world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
Hermann HesseWhat for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
Hermann HesseHuman life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse