“From the solitude of the wood (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.”

“From the solitude of the wood (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.”

“One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.”

“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.”

“When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.”

“From the solitude of the wood (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.”

“I no longer cared about survival - I merely loved.”

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”

“At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile”

“Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.”

“When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.”

“The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the far flight of the galaxies our telescopes follow from without.”