Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

When a person is discouraged, he loses self-control and patience

Every day of life is a gift! Be sure to... unwrap it. Play with it. And, most importantly, give thanks for it!

Fire will run like poetry through your blood.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.