The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

One faith, one family.

Throw away the doctrine of waiting for confirmation

The way you attract something you term special determines how you safeguard it.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

Some things are worth the wait.

Death is an absolute marvel.