If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a sp….

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

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..

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy..

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

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

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

We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights,….

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth..

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day..

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

If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keepi….

We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly….

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man..

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer..