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 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.

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.

We are figments of the same imagination… We are one

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

Every raindrop that falls is accompanied by an angel, for even a raindrop is a manifestation of being.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.