"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."

"Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface."

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

"Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing.

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground."

"Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them."

"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."