The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

Death by starvation is slow.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,

There is only one truth, and that is love, all others are a byproduct.

Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated.

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Just this once, let it be easy.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.