Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.