For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

Words can not express the joy of new life.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.