Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all.

Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.