"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."

"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."

"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

"We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels."

"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."

"We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here."