A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.