“They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, theywould have remained with us; but their going showed that? non of them belonged to us.”

“The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight”

“Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?”“That’s different.”“Because you’re a grown-up?”

“That's why we call them belongings, because they give us a sense of belonging to something when we've left behind one life and have no compass to guide us through the next.”

“Yellowstone Park does not belong to Wyoming. It belongs to all of us.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”