“From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear.”

“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!”

“Better than a thousand sayings Made up of useless wordsIs one word of meaning Which calms you to hear it.”

“One who utters speech that isn't rough But instructive and truthfulSo that he offends no one, Him I call Brahmin.”

“There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.”

“Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men,You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.”

“Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them ...”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter”

“To be happy--one must find one's bliss”

“and we laugh and laugh andall I know isat this moment I feel likeI can do anything I wantand be anyone I wantand go anywhere on the globeand still call it home”

“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”

“As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice fo...”

“Nature allows one kind to kill another, it's part of the law ... you wonder if man might not be the most savage of all creatures. He's among the few that preys on nearly every other being, that con...”