“Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.”

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty. ..... I love this world.”

“In order to understand something really and truly well, you must know where it came from. There is no other way to appreciate its value.”

“I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.”

“Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.”