There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.