Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.