Quotes about Existence

Anthropologists observe that the world occupied by a human being comprises not only the surrounding land, water, sky, plant and animal life, human beings and works of human hands, but also a "symbolic reality," which is superimposed upon material reality.

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place.

this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

I have got to the age now where I can see how short a time we have to be here.

A creature is not a creator, and cannot be. There is only one Creation, and we are its members.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place.

The value of land, like the value of a life, is unreckonable and absolute.