“All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being.”

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”

“All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled slowly over the plain it buried. The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, yet things and process are one, and the line from inorganic to organic and back is uninterrupted and unbroken.”

“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.”

“The universe is a unity. Every material thing is in all things.All things come from all, and all is in all things.”