Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.