“Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.”

“Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.”

“He leaves less than a foot of space between us and I'm 10 inches away from spontaneous combustion.”

“Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.”

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse?Did you ever see a bird that had the blues?One reason why birds and hoses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

“Perception of friendliness differs from one culture to another. While it is true that people of one country may tend to be more spontaneously friendly to strangers than people of another country, I have found friendly people everywhere in the world, especially if I tried to make the first gesture.”