The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

A false vision was better than none.

a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.