If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.