Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Failure is your invention.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.