The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.
He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.