“We can know the needs of any particular region only by participating in its specificity-by becoming familiar with is cycles and styles, awake and attentive to its other inhabitants.”

“I think you can really only answer for yourself because that’s what I specialize in…I really specialize in being able to notice and communicate how I’m feeling with the idea that the most personal is the most universal…if you can really be honest about it.”

Most objects which we are accustomed to call beautiful, such as a painting or a tree, are single-purpose things, in which, through long development or the impress of one will, there is an intimate, visible linkage from the fine detail to the total structure.

“A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin.”

"The perceiving body does not calculate logical probabilities; it gregariously participates in the activity of the world, lending its imagination to things in order to see them more fully.”

"For most of us intelligence is probably blocked by the rigidity of our mind. This rigidity is caused by the fixed meanings that we hold, and the creative intelligence that we might otherwise have is now blocked."

"The power of meaning is that it completely organizes being."

"Evolution requires that hybrid organisms prove their value early. If it takes generations of adaptations to improve a system, a feature will wither before it takes off."