Childhood lasts all through life..

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too….

We understand nature by resisting it..

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in..

Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks ….

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself..

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it..

The blank page gives us the right to dream..

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allo….

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach..

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space..

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event..

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its ima….

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it..

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent thi….

When the image is new, the world is new..

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the….

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality..

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images….

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name….