Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.