"I have spent my life in the company of trees, and I have learned their secret language."

"Modern education is a factory for producing clerks, not free human beings."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable."

"The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies."