The trees reach up above me toward the sky, stretching out their great limbs in an intricate pattern that reminds me of the pattern of light... the pattern shifting back and forth as I climb.

We are part of a system that includes trees. Without trees, we will eventually all

The branches are a storm around me, and I fall into a deep well of green. The needles and limbs rush past. It is a whirling motion of green and brown branches.

I saw the Eagle Tree for the first time on the third Monday of the month of March, which I guess could be considered auspicious if I believed in magic or superstition or religion...

This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children.

My arms sometimes move on their own in big flapping motions, as if I might take off, and my hands spin like a hummingbird’s wings.

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

The Kingdom of God wasn't born on the Fourth of July.

War is like love it always finds a way.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.