Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.