Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.

- Nanao Sakaki

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

- Nanao Sakaki

If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dan…

- Nanao Sakaki

To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror.

- Nanao Sakaki

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

- Nanao Sakaki