If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.

If you are in a hurry to get money, you will be in a hurry to spend it. Anything that starts dubiously will surely end dubiously.