“Neutrinos proved very difficult to find because they are ghostly particles that only rarely interact with other matter: an average energy neutrino can easily pass right through many trillion miles of lead
without the slightest effect on its motion. This should give you significant relief, because right now as you read this, billions of neutrinos ejected [...]
“A plant knows who takes care of it with loving hands and who does not; it does not grow and bear fruit if tended by someone unskilled. Only people who have lived in the country, love nature and know its secrets are qualified to cultivate the land. To farm the land is an act of [...]
“The rule is that there are no good fathers; it is not the men who are at fault but the paternal bond which is rotten.”
“The word paradise is derived from the ancient Persian - ‘a green place’.”
“It is impossible to sort out all one’s feelings at any given moment on any given subject, and so perhaps it is wise never to take on any subject other than one’s own protean but still manageable self.”
“Abandonment is his salvation; his exclusion offers him another form of communion.”
“… teaching was letting children talk as if they had something important to say that the world had not heard and dealt with already.”