2 Quotes by Bill Potkin

Too many of us lack intimacy with the natural world and with our souls, and consequently we are doing untold damage to both. (p. 6)

The hero . . . is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations to the generally valid, normally human forms. Such a one's visions, ideas, and inspirations come pristine from the primary springs of human life and thought. Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.13(p. 55)