"Was there ever a better drawing of the human condition than ellipses, with their cheerful suspension of what, after all, only aspires to remain eternally suspended?"1
"The ... fox jumped ..."2
“On the way from mythology to logistics, thought has lost the element of self-reflection, and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.”6
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world."3
"When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it."4
"In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets..."5
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”7