I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words