There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.

We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.