A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I want to live in a world where people care about others, and try not to hurt others with words or actions.