We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.