Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.