“wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.”

“The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, they work by a principle more potent than fission. But I cant look upon them as just life, impartia...”

“I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of others is by sympathy, which is suffering with, and that the way to deal with ones own pain is to put one foot after the other. Yet I was ne...”

“Marians eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrically charged. Now you see? You wondered what was in whales milk. Dont you know now? The same thing ...”

“Isnt it complicated to be human, though? she said. Animals seem to give up their lives so naturallyAnd after all, I grew up, I married John, I had Debby. So knowing, being able to understand and fo...”

“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a ...”

“One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, ...”

“Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects, but our eyes are slow and partial. Nature is blooming and withering in long puffy respirations, rising and falling in oceanic wave-motion. ...”