The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.

What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

Just a little loving kindness is sometimes all anyone really needs.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Everyone is part of you.

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.